[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide provides a brief overview of satellites, shuttles, rockets, and space stations. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

Construct a model that helps to show how satellites stay in orbit around the Earth. Then see how a flashlight can help explain how a satellite can send messages to different locations.

This activity introduces gravity and Kepler's Laws and helps to develop an understanding of gravitational force, satellite orbits, and their dependence on the initial velocity.

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson describes what would happen to various satellites if their planets vanished. Implicit differentiation is used to determine the tangent to each satellite's orbit, which is the path...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The meteor is orbiting one of the 3 planets in a circular orbit. Drag the point associated with each planet to the meteor to see its orbit around that planet.

Students use satellite tracking software available on the Internet to monitor a very large satellite, the International Space Station. Using information from this online resource, students predict and graph the motion of the space...

How do we know where we are? In this lesson, learners explore the concept of triangulation that is used in navigation satellites and global positioning systems designed by engineers. Also, students learn how these technologies can help...

A captivating report that allows you to track specific satellites and see where they are in their orbit.

This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration allows one to read the "Three Little Piggy-back Satellites," and then play the Nanosat Flingman game. [Requires Shockwave]

The physics associated with global positioning satellites is discussed. The mechanism by which they triangulate the location of an object is described.

This simulation of a satellite's elliptical motion around a central body allows students to alter the eccentricity of the orbit while learning about velocity and force vectors.

In this interactive physics tutorial, students explore the variety of mathematical equations that describe the motion of satellites.

Students explore orbits of planets and satellites. Some topics examined in the activities are planetary motion, angular momentum of orbits, and Kepler's laws. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and...

Explore the motion of a satellite as it orbits the earth in this interactive simulation.

Students explore how a satellite's motion is governed by the same physics principles and described by the same mathematical equations.

Find out about the behavior and characteristics of the many satellite galaxies that orbit other galaxies.

A basic introduction to artificial, or man-made, satellites. Links to information about the planets and other objects in our solar system are included.

Named in honor of Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted, Denmark's first satellite has been observing and mapping the magnetic field of the Earth.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Astronauts and space study.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Astronauts and space study.

For the first time, NASA scientists have generated a full image of the sun, front and back, using twin orbiting satellites. The new view of Earth's star will allow for the study of solar weather events like coronal mass ejections that...

A page describing the physics, mathematics, and historical figures associated with planetary motion, satellite motion, and universal gravitation.

View images of the Earth taken by various satellites that are orbiting the Earth.

The necessity of gravitation to a circular orbit is discussed and equations for the orbital speed are derived from the law of universal gravitation. Binary systems in which two objects orbit about a center of mass are explained and...