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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 ...
The GQM-163 Coyote is a supersonic sea-skimming missile target built by Northrop Grumman [2] (formerly Orbital ATK) and used by the United States Navy as a successor to the MQM-8 Vandal. Orbital's proposal was chosen over the MA-31, a joint venture between Boeing and Zvezda-Strela. Orbital was awarded the development contract for the Coyote ...
Image showing the recovery process for a Discoverer film canister. 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]
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.
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 .
Skynet 5D was launched by an Ariane 5ECA carrier rocket flying from ELA-3 at Kourou.The launch occurred at 21:49 UTC on 19 December 2012. [5] Skynet 5D was one of two satellites aboard the rocket, the other being Mexsat Bicentenario, which was located below it; Skynet 5D was mounted atop a Sylda 5 adaptor.