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nounman-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
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nouna person who follows or serves another
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nounany celestial body orbiting around a planet or startype of:
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verbbroadcast or disseminate via satellite
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"a city and its satellite communities"adjectivesurrounding and dominated by a central authority or power
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- moon any natural satellite of a planet
- moon the natural satellite of the Earth
- planet any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
- hall United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)
- satellite broadcast or disseminate via satellite
- gps a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver
- jupiter the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky
- titan the largest of the satellites of Saturn; has a hazy nitrogen atmosphere
- spacecraft a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun
- braun United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)