Bridgit Mendler, known from Disney Channel, is now the CEO of a space startup called Northwood Space. She and her husband began by building a homemade antenna to send signals to satellites. Today, they are developing powerful antennas to fix a growing problem: there are many satellites in orbit, but not enough ground antennas to communicate with them.
Vocabulary list :
• Orbit (n): Path satellite takes around Earth
• Microgravity (n): Very low gravity in space
• Revolutionize (v): Change something in big way
• Antenna (n): Device sending and receiving signals
• Prototype (n): First model of new invention
• Satellite (n): Object sent into space
• Communicate (v): Share information with another person
• Launch (v): Send spacecraft into outer space
• Startup (n): New business just getting started
• Engineer (n): Someone who builds technical things