• Question: If a satellite is in space,how does a message beam from earth ?

    Asked by Achsu to Will, Silvia, Kieran, Isaac, Betty on 16 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Isaac Llorens

      Isaac Llorens answered on 16 Nov 2016:


      There are two possible ways to communicate to satellites, by radio and lasers.
      Radios work the same way as your smartphone but in a different frequency, laser in the other hand are light beams that offer much faster communication, but don’t work through clouds.

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