Talk:Satellite 5

I want to correct the first paragraph of this, but I'm not sure what the original editor intended. The line: "Satellite 5 though is not a satellite, but more of a long orbiting space station..." doesn't make sense to me.

A satellite is merely something that is in orbit around something else. Satellite 5 is a space station that orbits the Earth, therefore -- in my view -- it qualifies as a satellite.

From the wikipedia page on Satellites: "In the context of spaceflight, satellites are objects which have been placed into orbit by human endeavor. They are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon."

Did the original author mean to say: "Satellite 5 though is not just a communications satellite..." or is there some confusion as to what the term "satellite" refers to?

amccaf1 05:13, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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