How big are satellites?

MaggieL · 12-20-2006, 09:38 PM

Various sizes. Here's one I made amateur radio contacts through, while it was being readied for integration with its launch vehicle.

glatt · 12-21-2006, 08:39 AM

I'm with LJ on this one. I thought that thing on the top left of the satellite was a person, and it was as big as a house. I was trying to visualize the rocket that would carry it up.

As long as we are posting pics. Here's a nice one. [Nelson]Ha Ha![/Nelson]

Spexxvet · 12-21-2006, 08:47 AM

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History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.

This is what it took to get the basketball-sized object into orbit:

12-20-2006, 09:38 PM	#1
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