Currently there are only two planets with satellites orbiting them, Mars (a few of them) and Saturn (Cassini). All the planets excluding Uranus and Neptune have had satellites orbiting them at some point. We do also have two satellites orbiting minor objects and they are orbiting Comet 67-P (Rosetta) and the dwarf planet Ceres (Dawn).
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I believe the largest artificial satellite in orbit around the Earth at the moment is the International Space Station. It's estimated weight at completion will be 520 tons.
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A satellite is a body orbiting another like a planet or moon. A natural satelite is not man-made. The moon and other bodies were called this before the artificial, or man-made satellites were ever made like the ISS.
A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to COMSAT) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications.For more info on this, look at the website below.
The first artificial satellite was Sputnik I, launched by the Soviet Union on the 4th of October 1957