What are the differnces between a radio and sattelite telescope?
A satellite telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth (like a satellite). Orbiting telescopes are sensitive to wavelengths of light that are affected by the atmosphere (xrays, visible light, infrared light, etc.) and the telescopes are more effective outside Earth’s atmosphere. A radio telescope is one that detects radio wavelengths (radio telescopes are not generally in orbit, since they are large and don’t need to be in orbit to be effective).
A Satellite Telescope is essentially a telescope that is outside the atmosphere, orbiting the Earth. This is essentially due to much clearer images being generated due to the lack of distortion from the atmosphere. Depending on the ‘scope, there is the possibility that they can be built to detect any wavelengths. Examples are Hubble and Kepler. Radio Telescopes are generally ground-based (but can also be satellite), and basically take radio signals in (through a convex mirror system, or multiple convex mirrors for more exposure, more often), and generate an image from this, that light telescopes or the naked eye cannot see due to a low frequency in the waves, for example, active radio galaxies. An example of a radio telescope is Arecibo. There isn’t any real ‘difference’ between them in the sense of pros and cons… they do different things.
