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A satellite can be described as any object whether it is man made or naturally occurring that orbits around something else. There are over ten types of man-made satellite.Some of the main types of man made satellites that are used today include the communication satellite, astronomical satellite, earth observation satellites, weather satellites, and space stations.Communication satellite is a satellite that is stationed in space for the intention of telecommunications. It relays messages, radio, and telephone and television signals. The earth station that is based on the ground transmits signals to the satellite, which then conveys signals to other earth stations. Communication satellites are very effective in bringing the people together because communications that used to take days or even months, now only takes a minute or second using satellites.The communication equipments are those apparatus that are used to distribute information from one place to the other. It includes devices like Ethernet, antenna, network routers, network switches, transceivers, signal conditioners, signal transmitters, signal receivers, and signal transmission medium. These equipments facilitate the transmission of voice, video and data application signals from one place to the other and are used in many communication devices such as mobile phones, pagers, radio systems, and telephones.The astronomical satellites help in giving information about space and the universe that may not be acquired by observatories on earth. It sends data about the earth’s magnetic field and its radiation belts and the solar wind identify radiation such as gamma rays, infrared rays, ultra violet rays, and X-rays from the outer space that point out the existence of various objects varying from stars and galaxies to quasars, invisible gas clouds, black holes, and the ruins of the exploding stars.An Infrared Astronomical satellite was the first space-based observatory to present a