Satellites come up in both our KS3 and GCSE programme of Study.   This page will help you track down information for projects and homeworks but nothing beats finding out when a satellite is going to go over your house and then seeing its arrival at the appointed time.   The International Space Station, the Space Shuttles and the Hubble Space telescope are the greatest celebrities but there's much more to see for the satellite spotter.

Heavens-above.com is one of the best ways of getting satellite pass times:

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There are few things more gob smacking on the internet than NASA's near-real-time tracking of satellites.   Looking like a swarm of bees around a hive, it's a great place to start exploring satelllites.  But it only tracks 700 of the two and a half thousand satellites in orbit around our planet.  Click on the pic to get this Java applet to download from their site:

3D satellite tracker

 

You can track a range of spacecraft in detail at NASAs 'Liftoff' site:

Site name: Liftoff to Space Exploration

 

Station Position

 

The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California have a great satellite site:

The Satellite Site