Anything orbiting the earth is a satellite including the glove that floated out of the Gemini spacecraft. The obvious satellites include communication and spy. Gps also uses satellites.
I put them into two major classifications: communicators and sensors.
Within communicators there are comm relay satellites, and signaling sats. The former receive a signal from the ground and relay...
1.Aryabhata launched on 19.04.1975 was the First Indian satellite. 2.Bhaskara-I launched on 07.06.1979 was the First experimental remote sensingsatellite. 3.Bhaskara-II launched on 20.11.1981 was the...