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Civil Air Patrol CAP Mitchell AwardAerospace Terms questions & answers.
satellite ANS -natural or artificial object in space that orbits the Earth
orbit ANS -the path a satellite takes around a celestial body
apogee ANS -the highest point of an orbit
perigee ANS -the lowest point of an orbit
Sputnik ANS -the first artificial satellite
COMSTAT ANS -communications satellites
INTELSAT ANS -International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
NAVSTAR ANS -navigation satellites
LANDSAT ANS -satellites that locate natural resources and monitor conditions on the Earth's surface
GOES ANS -Geostationary Operations Environmental Satellites
Johannes Kepler ANS -discovered satellites orbiting around Jupiter in the 1600's
Kepler's First Law ANS -the orbit of each planet is an ellipse, with the Sun at the focus
, Mercury ANS -US' first manned spaceflight project
Gemini ANS -US' manned spaceflight project that achieved the first walk in space and the first two-man
capsule
Apollo ANS -US' manned spaceflight project that put man on the Moon
Skylab ANS -US' manned spaceflight project that put a laboratory into space; first US space station
Apollo-Soyuz ANS -Manned spaceflight project linking American and Soviet spacecraft in space
Space Shuttle ANS -US' Space Transportation System (STS) for transporting into space and returning to
Earth
Neil Armstrong ANS -First man to set foot on the moon
Telstar ANS -first commercial satellite
Space Station Alpha ANS -future space station, a joint venture with US, Europe, Canada, Japan, and
Russia
Mir ANS -Russia's space station of the 1980's and 1990's
Salyut ANS -Russia's first space station
Spacelab ANS -European Space Agency's first space station
black hole ANS -a region in space where no radiation is emitted
cislunar space ANS -the space between the earth and the moon
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