Go to the Quizzes Page Rockets and Satellites 0% 4 Created by AbuBakrShalabi Please write your name and email to receive your certificate. 1 / 15 Which planet in our Solar System has the most number of moons? Saturn Jupiter Earth Mars 2 / 15 A _______________ is an unscrewed spacecraft sent from Earth to explore objects in space. rocket satellite probe telescope 3 / 15 What do natural and artificial satellites have in common? the float outer space with no direction they orbit celestial bodies the don't have anything in common they send information to the Earth 4 / 15 What are the types of satellites? artificial and homemade natural and organic natural and artificial 5 / 15 Which 2 planets in our Solar System don't have any natural satellites? Mercury and Venus Jupiter and Pluto Neptune and Mars Earth and Saturn 6 / 15 Which of the following are examples of remotely controlled robotic space vehicles called rovers? (Choose 2) Opportunity Voyager 2 Spirit Voyager 1 7 / 15 A _____________ is a vehicle designed to propel itself by ejecting exhaust gas from one end. probe rocket lunar probe satellite 8 / 15 What country put the first successful satellite in space? Soviet Union United States Canada England 9 / 15 The purpose of NASA is to oversee all space missions. False True 10 / 15 The first satellite was put into space in the year ________. 1980 1840 1957 2020 11 / 15 This telescope will orbit the sun at a distance of 1 million miles from Earth to gather infrared waves. Chandra Spitzer James Webb Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope 12 / 15 A _____________ is a smaller object that orbits a larger object. probe satellite lunar probe rocket 13 / 15 Which is the best explanation for how a rocket works? The rocket exhaust pushes against the atmosphere to propel the rocket. Hot exhaust is propelled out of the nozzle faster than the rocket moves. A rocket can't work in a vacuum. The rocket pushes the exhaust backward, as the exhaust pushes the rocket forward. 14 / 15 Check all the types of probes. jumper lander orbiter flyby 15 / 15 This was the first man-made satellite. Sputnik 1 Voyager 1 Explorer 1 Galileo 1 Your score is 0% Restart quiz Go to the Quizzes Page