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Mystery #3Tier 2space / satellites

How do machines circling high above you help you every single day?

You checked the weather, a map found your street, and a football match beamed in live from another country. You may not have noticed, but machines whizzing far above the clouds quietly helped with every one of those. How can something way out in space be so busy helping you down here?

A large satellite being prepared in a clean room before launch, with an engineer beside it for scale.
Photo: NASA/Jim Grossmann · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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