| English | German |
| artificial satellite Any man-made object placed in a near-periodic orbit in which it moves mainly under the gravitational influence of one celestial body, such as the earth, sun, another planet, or a planet's moon | Künstlicher Satellit |
| observation satellite Man-made device that orbits the earth, receiving, processing and transmitting signals and generating images such as weather pictures | Beobachtungssatellit |
| satellite account A separate financial record or statement that discloses financial activity in a particular area and supplements existing financial records | Nebenkonto |
| satellite debris | Satellitenrest |
| satellite image A pictorial representation of data projected onto a two-dimensional grid of individual picture elements (pixels) and acquired from a human-made vessel placed in orbit round a planet, moon or star | Satellitenbild |
