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List of USA satellites. This is a list of satellites and spacecraft which have been given USA designations by the United States Air Force. These designations have been applied to most United States military satellites since 1984, and replaced the earlier OPS designation. As of June 2022, USA designations have been assigned to 331 space satellites.
First NRO launch on an Electron from Wallops, VA. Four payloads. First NRO launch on a Minotaur IV and first from Virginia's Space Coast. [132] First Rocket Lab Electron launch, first launch from outside the United States ( New Zealand ), and first launch procured under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) program.
USA-336 is a three-axis stabilized satellite equipped with an Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) scanner. [5] USA-336 uses its OPIR scanner and long-range surveillance to provide early warning for Ballistic Missile launches. [1] [4] It will replace older Defense Support Program satellites. [5]
This satellite, launched in August last year, has frequently come close to the American military satellite USA-326, which the Pentagon said is meant to gather intelligence via “overhead ...
SpaceX on Wednesday launched an inaugural batch of operational spy satellites it built as part of a new U.S. intelligence network designed to significantly upgrade the country's space-based ...
GOES-18. GOES-18 (designated pre-launch as GOES-T) is the third of the "GOES-R Series", the current generation of weather satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The current and next satellites of the Series ( GOES-16, GOES-17, GOES-18, and GOES-U) will extend the availability of the Geostationary ...
O3b mPOWER is a communications satellite system owned and operated by SES.The system uses high-throughput and low-latency satellites in a medium Earth orbit (MEO), along with ground infrastructure and intelligent software, to provide multiple terabits of global broadband connectivity for applications including cellular backhaul and international IP trunking, cruise line connectivity, disaster ...
Images were posted online of the two SpaceX-built Space Development Agency Tranche 0 Flight 1 Tracking Layer infrared imaging satellites that launched on 2 April 2023. After the launch of Starlink Group 7-16, only 20 of a batch of 22 starlink satellites were catalogued and the remaining two were later designated as USA-350 and USA-351.