satellite
卫星,星际
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Definitions
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- : Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
- : a country under the domination or influence of another.
- : something, as a branch office or an off-campus facility of a university, that depends on, accompanies, or serves something else.
- : an attendant or follower of another person, often subservient or obsequious in manner.
- : a device designed to be launched into orbit around the earth, another planet, the sun, etc.
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- : of, relating to, or constituting a satellite: the nation's new satellite program.
- : using an earth-orbiting satellite to transmit communications signals; transmitted or broadcast by satellite: satellite radio and TV.
- : subordinate to another authority, outside power, or the like: summoned to a conference of satellite nations.
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Examples
The additional 1,280 satellites were approved for medium Earth orbits of 8,500km.
The effort will combine satellite images of agricultural regions with subseasonal forecasts out to 45 days.
Some cosmologists would answer that, today, with our satellites, we are making the required measurements.
The company has launched more than 600 satellites for Starlink, a high-speed Internet network that could begin commercial service late this year for customers in northern North America.
We’re poised to see more satellite launches with every passing year, which means more pieces of rocketry and spacecraft getting loose and zipping around at over 22,000 mph.
Initially, it will be able to carry 1,000-pound satellite-guided bombs or 500-pound laser-guided weapons.
For air supplier Hughes Aircraft, it was crucial satellite pieces from Russia.
Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel.
As a result, a satellite passing over a higher-mass region would speed up very slightly, and slow down over a lower-mass one.
A small outdoor television satellite dish sticks out of tall grass alongside a few piles of firewood.
She was captured many years ago in an attempt to overthrow the rule of Wananda upon a small satellite planet.
Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
His Life by his satellite Boswell holds the first place among biographies as a triumph of portraiture.
He beckoned to his Chinese satellite and walked leisurely to the door.
Rose hurried away her sister and satellite, and then let loose her glee.