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Chapter 10

The document discusses the history and developments in astronomy and space exploration technology. It describes key astronomers and their contributions to understanding the solar system. Technologies like telescopes, rockets, satellites, space probes, and spacecraft are explained and examples provided. The uses of remote sensing from space are outlined across various fields. Overall applications of space exploration technology are to better understand space, plan construction projects, and potentially find new habitats or resources.

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Chapter 10

The document discusses the history and developments in astronomy and space exploration technology. It describes key astronomers and their contributions to understanding the solar system. Technologies like telescopes, rockets, satellites, space probes, and spacecraft are explained and examples provided. The uses of remote sensing from space are outlined across various fields. Overall applications of space exploration technology are to better understand space, plan construction projects, and potentially find new habitats or resources.

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CHAPTER 10:

SPACE
EXPLORATION

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10.1 Developments in Astronomy
Development in the Historical Models of the Solar
System

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10.1 Developments of Technology
and its Applications in Space
Exploration
• Astronomy is the scientific study of the stars and
planets and their movements.
• The table below shows the names of
astronomers and their contributions.

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Applications of Technology in Space
Exploration and their importance

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Applications of Technology in Space
Exploration and their importance

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• 3 types of telescope :
i) Refracting – uses lenses to take or send photographs of
outer space
ii) Reflecting telescope – uses mirror to take or send
photographs of outer space
iii) radio telescope – used to receive electric signals and
radiation from outer space
• Used to detects activities, radio waves from space and
measures the altitude of stars
• Example : - Galileo’s telescope
- Hubble space telescope

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Radio telescope Refracting telescope

Reflecting telescope
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Rocket
• Used in space exploration
• When the fuel in a rocket burns, hot gases are released at high speed
through the bottom of the rocket
• The release of these gases produces a force which pushes the rocket
upwards

- Used to send spaceship,


satellite and space probes
- Example : - Vostok K
- Atlas
- Saturn 1B
- Saturn V

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• Satellite – object that orbits around another
object
- man-made satellites are launched
into certain orbits for remote sensing
purpose
- used to collect :
space weather information
space condition
telecommunication
Defence (military)
Remote sensing
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• Space probe :
- space craft that gather information and sends it back to
Earth
- do not orbit Earth but travel further into and out of the
Solar System
- carry camera, remote sensing instruments, radio
transmitters and receiver for the purpose of
communicating with scientists on Earth
- Example :
space probe Cassini

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• Remote sensing :
- method to collect and recording information from a
distance
- in Malaysia : it fitted into TiungSAT-1
- to receive or detect visible, ultraviolet
and infrared lights produced by objects
on the surface or below the surface of
Earth
- it will be sent to two data receiving
stations at National Planetarium Station
(KL) & the Mission Control Station
(MCGS), Bangi.

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- used in various fields :
Agriculture – to detect suitable regions for
agricultural development
Geology – to detect locations such as mineral
sources, mass depletion and land depletion
Disaster management – to identify pollution
and forest fires
Defence – to detect intrusions of enemy ships,
aircraft and vehicle
Forestry – provide information on how forests
are destroyed by fires, pests or diseases

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Spacecraft/spaceships
• spacecraft are launched into space to obtain
information.
• spacecraft that transport astronaut are launched into
space using rockects.

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Space station
• space stations provide a place in space for astronaut to
carry out studies while in space.
• Russia’s space station-Salyut, America’s – Skylab.
• The International Space Station (ISS) is now being built in
orbit through the cooperation of 16 countries.

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Space shuttles
• this type of spacecraft can be
launched, returned to the
Earth
• and can be used several
times.
• nowadays, the launching of a
spacecraft with rockects has
been replaced by space
shuttles.
• Space shuttles are used to
ferry astronaut and research
equipments as well as to
launch space probes and
satellites.

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• Enables engineers to plan the best time to carry out
a big projects such as building bridges, highways
and dams
• To expose the secrets of Earth, planets and other
space objects
• To search for new habitats for humans on the
Moon or other planets
• To obtain minerals from the Moon or other planets
• To learn more about natural phenomena

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