How to Use satellite in a Sentence
satellite
noun- Images of the planet are sent by satellite.
- Satellites help meteorologists predict the weather.
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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 -
To detect the ships, Javornicky says, the company scoured 90 days of archived satellite images for the area.
— WIRED, 11 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
During the Apollo missions, NRO spy satellites captured images of potential landing sites on the moon.
— Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024 -
The Starship is powered by six Raptors and will be capable of carrying astronauts, satellites and science probes.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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