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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Hundreds of man-made satellites orbit around the Earth. Satellites let you talk to your friends across the continents. You watch live world-wide television with their help. They guide you when you travel and show you the most interesting images of deep space.

Mike Painter, OBE, was a founder member of what is now the largest satellite company in Europe, Matra Marconi Space, and has held a wide variety of positions in the satellite industry.

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OUR REVIEW

Mike Painter, one of the founders of the giant aerospatial industrial firm Matra Marconi, an enterprise accustomed to building satellite parts and systems for space travels, is in charge of telling children the how and the why of the uncountable amount of objects orbiting the Earth.

What parts does a satellite consist of? How is it set in orbit? What work do they make from their position and which are the physical laws they obey? Painter explains it all with very simple words, supported by the impressive illustrations by Mic Rolph.

This small book is designed so as to make such a technological issue easily assimilated by the mind of a child, entertaining and amusing at the same time. It only is some thirty pages, yet it is more than enough to present the fundamental concepts as well as divulge what already is at the avantgarde of modern science.