Satellites

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burned gasoline and liquid oxygen. It traveled only 56m (184 ft) but
proved to the world that the principle was valid. Gossard Died August 10, 1945.
Gossard did not work alone, he was also in partnership with a Russian theorist
named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Tsiolkovsky was born on September 7, 1857. As a
child Tsiolkovsky educated himself and rose to become a High School teacher of
mathematics in the small town of Kaluga, 145km (90mi) south of Moscow. In his
early years Tsiolkovsky caught scarlet fever and became 80% deaf. Together, the
theoretical work of Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the experimental work of
American Robert Gossard, confirmed that a satellite might be launched by means
of a rocket.


I chose the satellite to research because many things such as computers,
TVS and telephones are using satellites, and I thought it would be a good idea
to figure out how they work and the history behind them before we start to use
them more rapidly. I also picked the satellite ...

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