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Blue Gemini [1] was a United States Air Force (USAF) project first proposed in August 1962 for a series of seven flights of Gemini spacecraft to enable the Air Force to gain crewed spaceflight experience prior to the launch of the Manned Orbital Development System, or MODS. The plan was to use off-the-shelf Gemini spacecraft.
The main role of the Bastion-P is to engage surface ships including carrier battle groups, convoys, and landing craft.A typical battery is composed of 1-2 command and control vehicles based on the Kamaz 43101 6×6 truck, one support vehicle, four launcher vehicles based on the MZKT-7930 8×8 chassis each operated by a 3-man crew and holding two missiles, and four loader vehicles; launcher ...
USA-165 or XSS-11 [2] (Experimental Satellite System-11) is a small, washing-machine-sized, low-cost spacecraft developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate to test technology for proximity operations.
The first military use of satellites was for reconnaissance. In the United States the first formal military satellite programs, Weapon System 117L, was developed in the mid-1950s. [2] Within this program a number of sub-programs were developed including Corona. [2] Satellites within the Corona program carried different code names.
An X-37B onboard camera captures an image of Earth. Orbital Test Vehicle 7 (OTV-7), also referred to as United States Space Force-52 (USSF-52) or USA-349, [3] [4] is the fourth flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane.
Illustration of the DSCS III satellite. The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) [1] is a United States Space Force satellite constellation that provides the United States with military communications to support globally distributed military users.
The GeoEye-2 satellite is designed to provide panchromatic images at a highest resolution of 0.31 meters per pixel (12.2 in/px), and multispectral images at 1.24 meters per pixel (48.8 in/px). [20] The spacecraft was designed and built by Lockheed Martin, [ 21 ] while the camera payload was provided by ITT Corporation .
USA-291, or Wideband Global SATCOM 10 (WGS-10) is a United States military communications satellite operated by the United States Air Force as part of the Wideband Global SATCOM program. Launched in 2019, it was the tenth WGS satellite to reach orbit.