SATELLITES AND SPACECRAFTS

1. SATELLITES AND
SPACECRAFTS
By: Mónica Alonso, Silvia Casado and Irene Escolano

2. INDEX
• Satellites
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 2
Types of artificial satellites
• Spacecrafts
Types of spacecrafts
• Satellites and Spacecrafts
• Differences between Satellites and Spacecrafts

3. SATELLITES

4. SPUTNIK 1
• First satellite launched on space.
• It ushered in political, military, technological
and scientific developments.
• It led to the creation of the NASA.

5. SPUTNIK 2
• Second satellite launched into Earth orbit.
• Launched by the Soviet Union.
• It carried a dog named Laika: a female port-
Somoyed terrier that wighed 6 kg.

6. TYPES OF ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
Navigation satellitesCommunication satellites
Weather satellite orbits

7. Astronomical satellitesInternational Space Station (ISS)

8. SPACECRAFTS

9. TYPES OF SPACECRAFTS
Flyby spacecraft Orbiter spacecraft
Atmospheric spacecraft Lander spacecraft

10. Penetratur spacecraft Rover spacecraft
Observation spacecraft
Communication and navigation
spacecraft

11. SATELLITES AND SPACECRAFTS
• Chandra X-Ray observatory.
• Hubble Space Telescope.
• Pioneer 10.
• Voyagers.

12.  X-ray picture taken
with Chandra.
•Chandra X-ray observatory

13. •Hubble space telescope Orion nebula
Galaxy

14. •Pioneer 10

15. •Voyagers  Jupiter (Voyager 2)
 Neptune (Voyager 1)

16. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPACECRAFTS
AND SATELLITES
• There are no technical differences betwen them.
• The only ‘difference’ is that a spacecraft can be a satélite, only
when it is in an orbit around any object.

17. The end