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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sat·el·lite n.
 1. An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent. “The satellites of power.”
 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 Zool., a handsome European noctuid moth (Scopelosoma satellitia).