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Build a Satellite

Can you make your own homemade satellite? Be inspired by American mathematician Evelyn Boyd Granville and build a satellite at home or in the classroom. Satellites are communication devices that orbit the earth, and receive and send information from the earth. All you need are a few simple supplies to make this engineering project.

HOW TO BUILD A SATELLITE

EVELYN BOYD GRANVILLE

Evelyn Boyd Granville was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University. She graduated in 1949.

In 1956, she worked for IBM as a computer programmer. When IBM was granted a NASA contract, she moved to Vanguard Computing Center in Washington, D.C. She worked on the Project Mercury and Project Vanguard space programs, which included analyzing orbits and creating computer procedures. Her job included making “real-time” calculations during satellite launchings.

“That was exciting, as I look back, to be a part of the space programs–a very small part–at the very beginning of U.S. involvement.”

Granville also worked on projects for the Apollo program, which included celestial mechanics, trajectory computation, and “digital computer techniques”.

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CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR FREE SATELLITE PROJECT!

HOW TO BUILD A SATELLITE

SUPPLIES:

  • Satellite printable
  • Scissors
  • Aluminum Foil
  • Glue
  • Craft Sticks
  • Water Bottle
  • Cereal box cardboard

INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1: Print the satellite template and cut out the shapes from the template.

STEP 2: Cut your water bottle in half and then cut out a section of the bottom half.

STEP 3: Put your water bottle back together, so that it is now a smaller bottle. Tape the middle.

STEP 4: Wrap your bottle with aluminum foil and tape.

STEP 5: Use the templates to cut out the rectangles and the circle out
of cardboard.

STEP 6: Glue your cardboard circle to the top of your water bottle.

STEP 7: Wrap the half circle around and tape, to make a satellite dish. Glue to the top of the cardboard circle.

STEP 8: Wrap the cardboard rectangles with aluminum foil and glue the printed satellite panels on top of the foil.

STEP 9: Glue a craft stick to each satellite panel.

STEP 10: Poke holes in your water bottles and insert the craft sticks/panels.

You have made a satellite!

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HOW TO BUILD A SATELLITE

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