Introduction to Space and Satellites

Course Description:

A course aimed at a non-technical audience and those new to the subject. It includes some hands-on experiments using our Satellite Learning Laboratory training platform.

The course provides a basic understanding of our uses and applications of space, space science, orbits, the purposes of satellites and how they work.

We will explore what inspires us to look to space and the many and varied uses of space today and in the future.  We will examine what a satellite is. We will explore the space environment from our presence in the solar system, the Earth’s gravity and magnetic field and the vacuum of space. We will examine how we get into space, learn how aircraft and balloons use lift to counter gravity, rockets use thrust to get into space and how satellites use gravity to remain in orbit around the Earth.

We will explore what satellites do, what a payload is and what types there are. What is the platform and what functions it performs. We will perform experiments using the Satellite Learning Laboratory to explore how satellites and the sub systems function.  Finally, we look at how a satellite fits within a space system.

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