Like the Irish journalist asked the brain-dead lead scientist on the Rover mission: just give me some coordinates for that satellite (or any satellite) as we should all be able to watch the fifty thousand plus satellites pretty much 24/7 from our backyards.
As to your second comment, you have reversed the roles of the brain-dead.
As to you: Your course of study should include physics, with an emphasis on optics when you get sufficiently advanced to understand it, and mechanical engineering.