How do you define a natural satellite?

Answer 1

A "natural satellite" is a body in space that revolves around (orbits) another body. Technically the planets are all satellites of the Sun, but the term is usually applied to the moons, moonlets, and other bodies circling a planet.

The usage is required to differentiate moons, which were always satellites, from man-made or artificial satellites which were increasingly referenced as merely "satellites".
Something not sent into space by humans, (eg not a sputnik, space station or rubbish). The moon, or even a captured asteroid, would be "natural"

Answer 2

A natural satellite has no use as such. A natural satellite is something that is not man-made and is orbiting another object in space. There are many man-made satellites orbiting the Earth, but the moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth. The Moon has a formal name and is known as La Luna. Many of the other planets of our solar system have more than one moon and so have many natural satellites. There are also some man-made satellites orbiting planets, main for exploratory purposes.

Answer 3

A natural satellite is a moon, and such can be useful for resource gathering (mining, solar cells, even water or hydrogen) and for space bases - either in the sense of a monitoring station or an actual location of residence for astronauts.

Answer 4

A natural satellite is a small body of rock or sometimes gas that orbits a planet.

Answer 5

Anything that orbits around something else. i.e. the moon orbiting the earth and the earth orbiting the sun

Answer 6

a natural object that orbits another object