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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.
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. Flew on Rocket Lab's "Birds of a Feather" mission.
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 ...
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-19) will extend the availability of the Geostationary Operational ...
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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.