Data Vault 2.0 - What is a multi-active satellite?

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My question is about the Data Vault 2.0 methodology for data modeling.

-------What is a multi-active satellite?-------

I could not find a very basic definition with a very basic example for it in any book or website.

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A coworker provided me a very basic and easy-to-understand definition: the phone number example for a multi active satellite.

We have a "Person" Hub and a multi-active "PhoneNumber" satellite connected to it. In the PhoneNumber satellite, there is a home and work phone number for each person. The home phone number may not change for 17 years, but the work phone number may change e.g. every two years.

The multi-active satellite preserves "multi-active history" for both phone numbers, for every person in the Person Hub.

Please correct me if I have understood this example wrong!