Homework Question???

Question

OK I've got some Homework left over and one of the Questions that I have left is kind of tricky so I was hoping that someone out there in Cyberspace would be able to help???

The Question is this...

What exactly is a Satellite made out of?
i.e. what is the main three component that makes up a Satellite (Space Type not Home Type! =p ) apart from Metal!!!

I really hope that someone can help me with this Question!!!

Thanks a lot!!!

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Answer 1

When you say "space type not home type" I assume you are talking about natural satellites and not manmade. So knowing this, we can name a huge number of very different types of satellites: planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even stars themselves. The summed composition of these would simply be mostly hydrogen, some helium, and fewer amounts of all the other elements such as lithium and iron.

Answer 2

[edit] Spectral classification

This picture of 433 Eros shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m across can be seen.In 1975, an asteroid taxonomic system based on colour, albedo, and spectral shape was developed by Clark R. Chapman, David Morrison, and Ben Zellner.[9] These properties are thought to correspond to the composition of the asteroid's surface material. Originally, they classified only three types of asteroids:

C-type asteroids - carbonaceous, 75% of known asteroids
S-type asteroids - silicaceous, 17% of known asteroids
M-type asteroids - metallic, 8% of known asteroids
This list has since been expanded to include a number of other asteroid types. The number of types continues to grow as more asteroids are studied. See Asteroid spectral types for more detail or Category:Asteroid spectral classes for a list.

Note that the proportion of known asteroids falling into the various spectral types does not necessarily reflect the proportion of all asteroids that are of that type; some types are easier to detect than others, biasing the totals.


[edit] Problems with spectral classification
Originally, spectral designations were based on inferences of an asteroid's composition:[10]

C - Carbonaceous
S - Silicaceous
M - Metallic
However, the correspondence between spectral class and composition is not always very good, and there are a variety of classifications in use. This has led to significant confusion. While asteroids of different spectral classifications are likely to be composed of different materials, there are no assurances that asteroids within the same taxonomic class are composed of similar materials.

At present, the spectral classification based on several coarse resolution spectroscopic surveys in the 1990s is still the standard. Scientists have been unable to agree on a better taxonomic system, largely due to the difficulty of obtaining detailed measurements consistently for a large sample of asteroids (e.g. finer resolution spectra, or non-spectral data such as densities would be very useful).


[edit] Asteroid discovery

Answer 3

The moon is a satellite, and that is the same material as earth was in the beginning, iron, dust, silica molten rock, hidden ice and water probably. Anything that circles a planet is a satellite

Answer 4

If I understand your question, natural satellites of planets (or of asteroids, or of dwarf planets) are made either of rock or ice and dust. So, the three components would be ice, dust, and rock.

Answer 5

What a strange question for homework. I owuld guess Alluminium for it's lightness, and glass for the solar panels??

Answer 6

Probably
Solar panels - for energy
Motors - to position it
Payload - the bit that does the work