The future of satellite technology is focused on discovering secrete of the planets.With the help of engineers and scientist NASA has developed and flies very small satellites called nanosatellites. nanosatellites are designed for a wide spectrum of space missions including biology experiments, testing advanced propulsion and communications technologies. The main objective of nanosatellites is to uncover the secrets in the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere to benefit people on Earth.
Another satellite called Glory will be launched to increase scientists understanding of the earth’s energy balance. Glory is a low Earth orbit scientific research satellite designed to achieve two major goals: collect data on the properties of aerosols, black carbon in the earth atmosphere and climate and solar irradiance for the long term effects on the earth climate record.
Scientist believe that Jupiter holds secrets about our solar system’s early history. A satellite called Juno will be launched on 2011 to help scientists improve their understanding of our solar system by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter. The satellite will unlock many of the secrets on how planet formation unfolds in other star systems. Juno will detected volume of water is in Jupiter’s atmosphere, measure composition, temperature, cloud motions and other properties, map Jupiter’s magnetic and gravity fields, and so on
Assembly began April 1, 2010, for NASA’s Juno spacecraft in the high-bay cleanroom at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver Colorado.
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I think learning about these satellites is very important to society and gives new meaning to the arts outlook beyond earth. While researching information on this I can know understand and appreciate the science behind the machine.
ReplyDeleteSmall satellites serve as low-mass platforms that can be sent into orbit for well under a few million dollars, allowing nonspacefaring nations, corporations, educational institutions, and even individuals low-cost access to space. A nanosatellite or picosatellite can be developed by any nation and launched as a secondary payload on a wide range of launch vehicles. As individual spacecraft, micro-, nano-, and picosatellites are limited by power and aperture constraints; however, some space missions could be better served by mass-produced small satellites in large constellations or local clusters. Constellations or clusters with a hundred or more spacecraft will typically require microsatellites or smaller spacecraft to keep total mission cost practical.
The proliferation of small satellites will increase our understanding of the near-Earth environment and provide a nearly real-time assessment of that changing environment. For space exploration, small satellites can provide an efficient and economical means to identify regions of interest before sending larger space systems with more instrumentation. In the far term, mass production of small satellites could provide autonomous space assembly of large systems comprised of thousands of "smart" nano- and picosatellite "Lego" blocks.
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At some point in time, Earth will be solely dependent on satellites and satellite technology. We use it now for GPS, cell phones, and TV. There may be a time when satellites go down, and what do you know, no cell phone service? We are highly dependent on them, and they have no way of understanding because it's a satellite. What will our alternative be to the day we have no satellites. Wonder what happens if the Sun becomes out of sight because of pollution and hte Ozone layer. It will be an interesting future for satellites.
ReplyDeleteSatellites are an important part of our endeavors in space but the more of them we put into orbit around the earth the more we litter that orbit.
ReplyDeleteSpace trash as it seems to have come to be known could be a problem as the population continues to increase requiring more communications satellites to be deployed.
It's amazed me that through all our space missions we've not hit one of those satellites accidentally.
I think that it will be a good idea to replace large satellites that we have orbiting today with the smaller ones in this article. This will allow more satellites without the risk of contact from other ones.
ReplyDeleteUsing a satellite to monitor the Earth's atmosphere might help scientist understand the whole global warming bit, so we can have a better understanding of our future, and what changes that we have to make.
Finally, using an advanced satellite to monitor Jupiter is beneficial for giving scientists an idea of how the universe might have been started. Maybe just to see how the atmosphere patterns of Jupiter will give us good information.
Looking at our own solar system is starting to look like a good idea compared to searching out into deep space. Scientist are starting to question how aliens will react to our presence, will they try to help us or destroy us. It will be a shame that we won't be around to see mankind move to a type I civilization and truly take its place among the stars.
ReplyDeleteIt's relieving to see the new satellites that are under construction. With smaller size
ReplyDeleteunits, costs may drop, and give NASA a greater range of exploration, with more available funding for other projects.