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Reimbursement for USA-193, Military Satellite. The so-called "Radar Imaging", which had a serious flaw and was the US Army, shot down. Destroyed: 21 Feb 2008. USA-277: 2017-09-07 Technology Falcon 9 Full Thrust: Boeing X-37B OTV-5: Active USA-278: 2017-09-24 2017-056A ELINT Atlas V 541 NROL-42 Active USA-279: 2017-10-15 2017-066A Communications
Since the first launch, DSCS has been the "workhorse" of military satellite communications. All DSCS III satellites have exceeded their 10-year design life. The National Science Foundation use the DSCS satellites to provide additional bandwidth to Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station and McMurdo Station on Ross Island on the continent of ...
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.
Pages in category "Military satellites of the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1964, the United States Army orbited its first Sequential Collation of Range satellite used for geodetic surveying. [32] The SECOR system included three ground-based transmitters at known locations that would send signals to the satellite transponder in orbit.
The DSAP-1 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 1) satellites series, also known as P-35, was the first series of military meteorological satellites of the United States. The project designation P-698BH was used concurrently with P-35 from June 1962 and P-35 became P-417 in October 1962.
Illustration of the WGS satellites in its two configurations, known as Block I (left) and Block II (right) The Wideband Global SATCOM system (WGS) is a high capacity United States Space Force satellite communications system planned for use in partnership by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and the Australian Department of Defence. [1]
Blue force tracking (BFT) systems consist of a computer, used to display location information, a satellite terminal and satellite antenna, used to transmit location and other military data, a Global Positioning System receiver (to determine its own position), command-and-control software (to send and receive orders, and many other battlefield support functions), and mapping software, usually ...