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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.
Earth observation satellites of the United States (5 C, 45 P) G. GPS satellites (81 P) L. Lockheed Martin satellites and probes (4 C, 22 P) M.
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.
Fairchild Space and Electronics Division. United States. sold to Matra Marconi Space, then sold to Orbital Sciences Corporation. Fokker Space & Systems. Netherlands. then Dutch Space, now part of EADS Astrium Satellites. GAUSS Srl. Italy. 9.
NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA. 1998. The International Space Station (ISS) has long been used as a central satellite platform for other sensors, including Earth observation sensors. For example: LIS, SAGE III, TSIS-I, ECOSTRESS, GEDI, OCO-3, Diwata-1, and HICO. Jason-3.
NASA delivers the most visible elements of the U.S. space program. From crewed space exploration and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, to the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Voyager, the Mars rovers, numerous space telescopes, and the Artemis program, NASA delivers on the civil space exploration mandate.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The mission followed the first two satellites, both launched by the Soviet Union during the previous year, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2. This began a Space Race during the Cold War between the ...
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.