Ten Facts about satellites

1. Satellite television transmits and broadcast signals from satellites orbiting the Earth.
2. The viewer's dish picks the signal from the satellite and passes it on to the receiver in the viewer's house.
3. The satellite tv receiver processes the signal and passes it on to a television.
4. The satellite reception is instead being used to support a summer field mission in South America.
5. Satellite imagery of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Atlantic Ocean from METEOSAT-7.
6. The global composite satellite maps are courtesy of the NCEP Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City Missouri.
7. The general criterion for an object to be a satellite is that the center of mass (known as the Barycenter) of the two objects is inside the primary object.
8. Navigation satellites are satellites which use radio time signals transmitted to enable mobile receivers on the ground to determine their exact location.
9. Weather satellites are satellites that primarily are used to monitor Earth's weather and climate.
10. The first national network of satellite television, called Orbita, was created in Soviet Union in 1967, and was based on the principle of using the highly-elliptical Molniya satellite for re-broadcasting and delivering of TV signal to ground downlink stations.