Ready Jet Go
What's a Satellite/Satellite Selfie
Season 1 Episode 26 | 23m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
The kids fix a TV satellite. / Jet and the gang gather for a "satellite selfie".
An Earth-orbiting satellite breaks down, and satellite TV service stops working... which means the kids can't watch their favorite shows! Can they fix it?/The kids learn that they can use links to different websites to see a satellite view of their house. With Dr. Rafferty's help, the kids identify the next time a satellite will pass over their neighborhood, and try to gather for a "space selfie".
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Ready Jet Go
What's a Satellite/Satellite Selfie
Season 1 Episode 26 | 23m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
An Earth-orbiting satellite breaks down, and satellite TV service stops working... which means the kids can't watch their favorite shows! Can they fix it?/The kids learn that they can use links to different websites to see a satellite view of their house. With Dr. Rafferty's help, the kids identify the next time a satellite will pass over their neighborhood, and try to gather for a "space selfie".
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and the shows were there.
- Well, I guess the TV signals have to come from somewhere.
- Apparently, they come from satellites.
Who knew?
- None of us, anyway.
- Well, I know.
A satellite is an object that humans put into orbit around the Earth.
- Really?
How do they stay in orbit?
- They orbit at tremendous speed.
That's what keeps them from falling to Earth.
For some satellites, much of their size is taken up by solar panels.
- So they're powered by the sun?
- Correct, Sydney.
- But what does that have to do with bringing us our TV shows?
- Satellites receive information, like your favorite TV show, Sydney, from transmitters on Earth, and beam it back down to receivers elsewhere on the planet.
kids: Cool!
- To understand ho w this works, you can think of the transmitter as a mouth, and the receiver as an ear.
And that's only one way we use satellites.
They also monitor weather, maps, and navigational systems.
Ciao for now.
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