Satellites (learn All About Satellites And Their Special Missions To Connect, Inform, And Protect All Of Us On Planet Earth)

An informative and beautiful guide to satellites for children.

Satellites introduces children aged 7-9 to smart satellite technology and the ways satellites monitor the planet''s health and help us take action.

Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs. Meet NOAA, Galileo, Aura, James Webb, and more, and find out about their special missions to connect, inform, and protect all of us on planet Earth.

This science book for children offers:

• The start of a new series that combines space technology and earth science with elements of communication, conservation and exploration.
• An inspiring book on the positive impact of technology in protecting and preserving our planet.
• A refreshing new perspective for space and technology curriculum activities that also explains how everyday tech works.

Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you''ll see a dot of light zip past. It’s not a shooting star, it''s a satellite.

The book uniquely combines Earth science and the latest space tech and is designed to fascinate and reassure. It includes a multitude of news-related themes: climate change, deforestation, wildlife tracking, storm/fire warnings, exploration, space junk, and more. There has never been a better time to learn about our ''eyes in the sky’.

Kate Peridot writes fiction and non-fiction, and likes to imaginatively blend the two to create immersive books. Kate hopes to inspire and prove to children that working in the space tech industry is not an impossible dream.

Denis Freitas is an illustrator and graphic designer from São Paulo, Brazil.

Sophie Allan is head of Teaching and Learning at the National Space Academy, UK. She is passionate about space and has a wealth of experience delivering space education projects and programmes, including for the European Space Agency. She has delivered lectures on space science around the world, including in Beijing and Shanghai as part of the China-UK strategic space partnership. Sophie has collaborated on multiple children''s books with DK.