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
  • The four people on board were adrift in a life raft and dinghy with a satellite phone and some supplies.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • New Zealand helped fund the satellite launch, along with private donors to EDF.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • On their phones, satellite images showed that the island was home to a village and an airstrip.
    Mike Baker, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Disney for years had the ability to strong-arm the old school cable and satellite guys.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The suit pattern is based off a satellite photo of melting ice caps.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Viasat confirmed the new launch window and said the delay had nothing to do with the satellite.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Set up satellite offices in those areas or have my people go to many of these places for a few days to help with the process.
    Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2023
  • Clear skies, with some elements of smoke can be seen on the Wednesday satellite.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • In cloudless conditions the satellite views allow the viewer to see ice on the lakes.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
  • From the 1990s on, more and more satellites were launched into orbit; the rockets that put them there were designed to fall back to Earth.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • For customers with big satellites seeking a ride to space soon, SpaceX is the only option.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • This flight will launch a French military spy satellite named CSO-3.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
  • 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
  • In the fifties, people would have been paranoid that the Soviets were spying on them with satellites.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
  • All rooms include satellite TV and coffee; some have a kitchenette or full kitchen.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The fin-mount tags transmit a shark’s current location to satellites when its fins are above the ocean’s surface.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Sep. 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
  • The Baells reservoir in satellite images from Planet Labs.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There's the satellite-level data, the map-level data and the street-level data.
    Fixing Our City Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Five years ago, there were fewer than two thousand satellites in orbit.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 2 May 2023
  • Satellite imagery used The new research used satellite images to determine that a greening trend across the Antarctic Peninsula is occuring and increasing.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024

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