DMSP, or Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, satellites were initiated by the Department of Defense. These satellites are used to provide important information to the military concerning weather conditions. Most commonly this information is used by the Air Force.
Strategic and tactical weather prediction.
All the satellites, communications, exploratory, military etc. are artificial satellites of Earth.
The five major types of artificial satellites are: research, communications, weather, navigational, and applications. Please see the related links.
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There are over 2,200 artificial satellites currently orbiting the Earth.
First was sputnik, but anything from the Direct TV and XM radio satellites and telecommunication, GPS to the International Space Station are artificial satellites in Earth Orbit. There are artificial satellites currently in orbit around other planets as well.
Venus has no natural satellites. It does have two artificial satellites (space probes). Venus is one of the two planets in our solar system (together with Mercury) that have no moon/natural satellite.
Uranus has 27 known artificial satellites as of now. These satellites are typically referred to by numbers rather than names.
There are two kinds of satellites: the artificial and natural satellite.
Mercury has no natural nor artificial satellites.
Sputnik and space probes are artificial satellites
We have used artificial satellites in order to take pictures and study the moon and they did travel around it.
Earth has one natural satellite and more than a thousand artificial satellites.