Rockets launch satellites orbit Earth.

Meaning: Vehicles send objects into space to move around our planet in a regular path.

Choice of Words: Rockets are vehicles that can travel through space. Launch means to send something into space. Satellites are objects that orbit a planet or star. Orbit means to move around something in a regular path. Earth is the planet we live on.

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Space rockets send space machines to circle our planet.

Meaning: This means the same as the first sentence, but it uses different words to explain it.

Choice of Words: **Space rockets** are like big machines that can go up into space. **Send** means to make something go somewhere. **Space machines** are like special machines that stay in space. **Circle** means to go around something in a circle. **Our planet** is the Earth that we live on.

Machines that go into space launch other machines that stay in space and go around Earth.

Meaning: This sentence is a bit more complicated, but it explains the same thing as the first two sentences. It says that rockets send satellites into space, and the satellites stay in space and go around Earth.

Choice of Words: **Machines that go into space** are like rockets. **Launch** means to start or send something into space. **Other machines** are like satellites. **Stay in space** means to not come back to Earth. **Go around Earth** means to orbit Earth.

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