Brief：Design an experience that reveals and explores the everyday
impact of space satellites
Teammates：Zoe, Coral, Tracie, Lili
April 14 - June 15
• field research
History of satellite connections with human
Names like Landsat, GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites), Intelsat and Global Positioning System may not be household words, but they affect humanity in significant ways not always appreciated.
- Steven J. Dick，NASA Chief Historian
As can be seen, the connections between the satellites and human was built step by step, from the military to civilian use.
Military satellites——mostly for reconnaissance, defense and intelligence.
Commercial satellites -- for communication, entertainment-related purposes, mapping and more.
GPS satellites -- for supporting navigations systems.
Scientific satellites -- for biological research programs, health care, climate studies, space research, evaluating
By Richard Hollingham (10th June 2013)
He explore a day without satellites, also Tracie, record the times she use satellite, and get an absolute answer, we are exposed ourselves in the power of satellites.
Current usage of satellite
Nowadays, satellites have branched out into more functions, and Zoe did some research about it:
and we classify those as the following usages
Culture Impact
Educational scenario
The Economic rationales of 5G
Privacy
Manage earth resources
Satelliete and Emotion
Carol found some powerful exist examples of how satellites support our emotions which made our direction more clear.
The Many Channels That Say Home; Wave of Foreign TV Becomes an 'Emotional Outlet' for Immigrants By Joseph BergerFeb. 23, 2004’’
For phonophiles out there, NASA recently launched its own SoundCloud page, filled with fantastic sounds and historic snippets from the US space agency’s 56-year history. The page includes conversations between Earth and the various space shuttles, sounds sent back from distant satellites, and some of the most famous words ever uttered. All the clips are downloadable. NASA even suggests making one your ringtone.
Next week:
we gonna tell our tutors about our direction which is we wanna focus on the emotional aspect, and in next week, we are supposed to grow more knowledge about how satellites support our emotions, and which emotion we should go with.
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