How Does Basic Satellite Design- Power Work?

A satellite needs power to work, just like you need food to play and run around all day.

Imagine your favorite toy car, it needs batteries to zoom around the room. A satellite is like that toy car, but way up in space! It uses solar panels, which are like big, flat squares that catch sunlight, just like how your skin feels warm when you're outside on a sunny day. These solar panels turn sunlight into electricity, which powers all the parts of the satellite, like its cameras, sensors, and even its little engine to move around.

Sometimes it's dark in space, like nighttime on Earth. That’s when the satellite uses batteries it stored electricity in earlier. These batteries are like your lunchbox, they keep energy for later when you need it most.

So, just like your toy car runs on batteries and sunlight, a satellite keeps running by catching light and storing power, no magic, just science!