Chapter 5: Exploring Space Test Preparation

This is a machine that uses escaping gas from burning fuel to move.

This is the acronym for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

This is how rockets move: the pushing or pulling force exerted by the engine of an aircraft or rocket

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This is the speed and direction a rocket must travel in order to orbit a planet or a moon.

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This is the speed and direction a rocket must travel to completely break away from a planet's gravitational pull.

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Any human-made object placed in orbit around a body in space.

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An orbit less than 1,500 km above the Earth's surface

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An orbit that is about 36,000 km above the earth's surface and in which a satellite is above a fixed spot on the equator

These satellites were originally developed to spy on other countries during the Cold War.

These satellites further images in several wavelengths and send them back to Earth.