How to Use satellite in a Sentence

satellite

noun
  • Images of the planet are sent by satellite.
  • Satellites help meteorologists predict the weather.
  • First, those satellites need to get to space.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But these high-tech satellites come at a high risk.
    — Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Pedro doesn’t hold back about the satellites.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Those satellites cost more than $1 billion a pop.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The tiny lens performed just as well as a giant satellite.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
  • The satellite is expected to be launched in about four years.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • How many Starlink satellites are in space?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The satellite isn’t expected to be launched for at least four years.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The sky is swarming with satellites and space telescopes.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
  • These changes are hard to detect with satellite images.
    — Brendan Byrne, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Can send a man to space but cant figure out how to get me satellite internet.
    — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 31 July 2025
  • The four people on board were adrift in a life raft and dinghy with a satellite phone and some supplies.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The body of the foreground object briefly blocks light from the star, as do any rings or satellites.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The suit pattern is based off a satellite photo of melting ice caps.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • On a ship, cellphones connect via satellites.
    — Erica Silverstein, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Of those, 17,682 are satellites.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
  • On the way, the carbon missed by the satellites was finally found.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
  • On their phones, satellite images showed that the island was home to a village and an airstrip.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Mini solar farms in the form of low-orbit satellites.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Ocearch also fits the sharks with pop-up satellite tags that float to the surface after six months.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Carry a two-way satellite device.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The team used 14 satellite tags to monitor whales’ dives.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 June 2026
  • Amazon has sent up more than 150 satellites since April.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Most of the Planet satellites are tiny (around a foot long), weighing less than eleven pounds.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Her to-go satellite in Manchester is set to reopen in the spring.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Rockets and satellites, of course, because those surely aren’t cheap.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Disney for years had the ability to strong-arm the old school cable and satellite guys.
    — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2024
  • That’s why the satellite service might struggle with endurance.
    — Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 16 Sep. 2025

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