Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig satelitealpha.com. NS
Answer
satelitealpha.com. 2 NS ns-462.awsdns-57.com.
satelitealpha.com. 2 NS ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
satelitealpha.com. 2 NS ns-1109.awsdns-10.org.
satelitealpha.com. 2 NS ns-554.awsdns-05.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0