How to Use satellite in a Sentence

satellite

noun
  • Images of the planet are sent by satellite.
  • Satellites help meteorologists predict the weather.
  • And satellite images from around the time of the collapse appeared to show no skiff in the river near the bridge.
    Jake Offenhartz and Claudia Lauer, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Data from the satellites shows that just over 1,000 fires burned in the Colombian Amazon in the first week of March.
    Quentin Septer, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
  • New Zealand helped fund the satellite launch, along with private donors to EDF.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The Houthis' Al-Masirah satellite news channel said the strikes happened near the port city of Hodeida.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • New Maxar satellite photos show how the growth of these cities is contributing to the crushing heat.
    Will Feuer, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The four moons, and Jupiter's largest satellites, are lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
    Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • For customers with big satellites seeking a ride to space soon, SpaceX is the only option.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But it’s also gotten faster and steadier as SpaceX has added satellites to the system.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • More than 60 nations have been involved in these types of satellite missions.
    Mariel Borowitz, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2023
  • On January 20, the diminutive satellite made its way across the star in the Martian sky over the course of several minutes.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • On a satellite call, my boss and mentor George Balazs, who had worked on East beginning in the 1970s, warned me not to push myself too hard.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network has been the key means by which fighters have communicated on the front lines of the war there.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Four of the songs Chan recorded with her daughter are getting airplay on satellite radio.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The scientists examined satellite images that showed the loss of sea ice at breeding sites.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • These missions were the first of the Keyhole series of spy satellites that the US continues to operate today.
    Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Since 2019, a dozen other African countries have also launched satellites.
    Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2023
  • During that time, satellite measurements were precise enough to detect a shift in the poles as small as a few millimeters.
    Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 16 June 2023
  • Getting satellites into space, of course, is wildly expensive, and the payoff can take some time.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The largest work in the exhibition is a dense, tactile painting based on a satellite picture of destruction through war.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Amazon is building a competing service called Project Kuiper with plans to launch satellites next year.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Indiana has 24 state parks and seven satellite locations, along with seven state park inns, many of which will be in the path of the totality of the eclipse.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The rover itself has a set of front facing arms for tool attachments or grabbing items as well as a tall satellite antenna on top.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
  • Giving us human spaceflight plus robotic or other satellite spacecraft gives us the best of both worlds.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, Amazon announced agreements for up to 83 launches to carry its Kuiper satellites.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The amount of stuff in Earth’s orbit continues to grow rapidly, thanks to SpaceX, Amazon, and others sending up thousands of new satellites.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The report was based on interviews with migrants and their associates, photos and videos, and satellite photos of the border area.
    Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Observations from both satellites and the Earth's surface are indisputable -- the planet has warmed rapidly over the past 44 years.
    Scott Dance The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
  • The company also promised to give field teams additional satellite phones—the sort of thing Willenbring could have used when she was stuck with Marchant.
    David Kushner, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024

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