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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.
Space programs of the United States date to the start of the Space Age in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Programs involve both crewed systems and uncrewed satellites, probes and platforms to meet diverse program objectives. From a definition perspective, the criteria for what constitutes spaceflight vary.
Maiden launch. 22 February 2018. ( 2018-02-22) Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX [ 5][ 6] providing satellite Internet access to most of the Earth. [ 7][ 8] Starshield is a classified derivative of Starlink designed to be operated for and can host payloads for military or government purposes.
The first Misty satellite, USA-53, was released by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-36 in 1990. The USA-144 satellite, launched on 22 May 1999 by a Titan IVB from Vandenberg Air Force Base may have been a second Misty satellite, [52] or an Enhanced Imaging System spacecraft. The satellites are sometimes identified as KH-12s.
The 22 second-generation Starlink V2 Mini Internet satellites will be launched from a Falcon 9 rocket at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch was rescheduled from Sunday ...
The United States Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. The system is the responsibility of United States Space Command and operated by the United States Space Force and its functions are:
This timeline of artificial satellites and space probes includes uncrewed spacecraft including technology demonstrators, observatories, lunar probes, and interplanetary probes. First satellites from each country are included. Not included are most Earth science satellites, commercial satellites or crewed missions .
Same satellite as Horizons-1 HS-601: United States Japan Satellite Systems 24 Ku-Band transponders: 1 October 2003: Same satellite as Galaxy-13 125.0°W: AMC-21: Orbital ATK GEOStar-2: United States SES: Comsat: Canada, United States, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America: 14 August 2008 Ariane 5 ECA: Ku-band satellite 123.0°W: Galaxy 18: LS-1300 ...