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Satellites

Learn All About Satellites and Their Special Missions to Connect, Inform, and Protect All of US on Planet Earth
By Kate Peridot
Series: Adventures in Tech
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An informative and beautiful guide to satellites for children. Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you'll see a dot of light zip past. It's not a shooting star, it's a satellite. Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs.... Read More
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An informative and beautiful guide to satellites for children.

Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you'll see a dot of light zip past. It's not a shooting star, it's a satellite.

Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs. Meet NOAA, Galileo, Aura, James Webb, and more, and find out about their special missions to connect, inform, and protect all of us on planet Earth.

Satellites introduces children to smart satellite technology and the ways satellites monitor the planet's health and help us take action. The book uniquely combines Earth science and the latest space tech, and is designed to fascinate and reassure.

It includes a multitude of news-related themes: climate change, deforestation, wildlife tracking, storm/fire warnings, exploration, space junk, and more. There has never been a better time to learn about our 'eyes in the sky'.

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    An informative and beautiful guide to satellites for children. Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you'll see a dot of light zip past. It's not a shooting star, it's a satellite. Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs. Meet NOAA, Galileo, Aura, James Webb, and more, and find out about their special...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241695807

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK Children

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Denis Freitas

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 232.0mm

Height: 286.0mm

Weight: 620g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

Kate Peridot writes fiction and non-fiction, and likes to imaginatively blend the two to create immersive books. Kate hopes to inspire and prove to children that working in the space tech industry is not an impossible dream. Denis Freitas is an illustrator and graphic designer from S o Paulo, Brazil. Sophie Allan is head of Teaching and Learning at the National Space Academy, UK. She is passionate about space and has a wealth of experience delivering space education projects and programmes, including for the European Space Agency. She has delivered lectures on space science around the world, including in Beijing and Shanghai as part of the China-UK strategic space partnership. Sophie has collaborated on multiple children's books with DK.

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