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By Neil deGrasse Tyson

Satellite Showdown

S13 E38

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Published September 13, 2022 2:00am

How do satellites work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore CubeSats, space lasers, and the ecology of low Earth orbit with VP of Raytheon, Sandy Brown, and associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Kerri Cahoy. 

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Photo Credit: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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