Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Satellite \Sat"el*lite\, n. [F., fr. L. satelles, -itis, an
   attendant.]
   1. An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful
      person; hence, an obsequious dependent. ``The satellites
      of power.'' --I. Disraeli.

   2. (Astron.) A secondary planet which revolves about another
      planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See
      {Solar system}, under {Solar}.

   {Satellite moth} (Zo["o]l.), a handsome European noctuid moth
      ({Scopelosoma satellitia}).