Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 16 compound words that contain satellites. The most common are listed below. Open satellites in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- communications satellitesplural of communications satellite: An artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals by means of a transponder.
- spy satellitesplural of spy satellite: An artificial space satellite used for reconnaissance or intelligence gathering.
- weather satellitesplural of weather satellite: A type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.
- Galilean satellitesThe four Galilean moons of Jupiter.
- fixed satellitesplural of fixed satellite: A geostationary satellite
- power satellitesplural of power satellite: A type of artificial satellite that is a power station, which generates power that is beamed to consumers.
- shepherd satellitesplural of shepherd satellite: A shepherd moon.
- space satellitesplural of space satellite: A crewed or robotic spacecraft designed to orbit the Earth, or another celestial body
- sub-satellitesplural of sub-satellite; Alternative form of subsatellites.
- quasi-satellitesplural of quasi-satellite: An object in a specific type of coorbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet, causing it to stay close to the planet over many orbital periods, despite not being a true satellite.
- direct broadcast satellitesplural of direct broadcast satellite: a television satellite that broadcasts directly to the final recipient/viewer, to a home satellite dish.
- Dyson-Harrop satellitesplural of Dyson-Harrop satellite: A type of power satellite that derives energy from stellar wind through betavoltaics, by capturing free electrons (beta particles) in the wind; instead of through sunlight and photovolatics.
Compound words 16
- microsatellitesplural of microsatellite: A miniature satellite.
- alphasatellitesplural of alphasatellite: viral single-stranded satellite DNA.
- betasatellitesplural of betasatellite: A form of single-stranded satellite DNA associated with plant viruses.
- biosatellitesplural of biosatellite: an artificial satellite that is designed to carry humans or other organisms
- deltasatellitesplural of deltasatellite: A small non-coding DNA satellite about 700 nt long, associated with helper begomoviruses.
- geosatellitesplural of geosatellite: A satellite that orbits the earth, especially one that maintains communication with a receiver on earth.
- hypersatellitesplural of hypersatellite: A weak line in an X-ray spectrum close to a normal line
- macrosatellitesplural of macrosatellite: An array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA
- megasatellitesplural of megasatellite: A large DNA tandem repeat
- minisatellitesplural of minisatellite: A short series of bases that reoccurs many times in a genome