List of USA satellites explained

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 437 space satellites. There is not always a one-to-one mapping between launch vehicles and mission spacecraft. This can occasionally result in gaps when maintaining records that incorrectly make that assumption, such as the "missing" entries for USA-163 (which are, symmetrically, contemporary with confusion over "splitting" spacecraft tracks).[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: SeeSat-L - Milstar 5 on OIG. SeeSat-L. 16 January 2002. 1 October 2012.
  2. Web site: Stacksat (POGS & SSR TEX SCE) . Gunter's Space Page . 25 July 2012 . 1 October 2012.
  3. Web site: Stacksat P87-2. Astronautix.com. 1 October 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121005035828/http://astronautix.com/craft/statp872.htm. 5 October 2012.
  4. Web site: 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Apparently Exploded in Orbit. Brian. Berger. Mike Gruss 02. March 2015. Space.com. 2 March 2015 .
  5. Web site: Gibson . Hillary . SpOC officially retires DSCS satellite . . . 14 December 2022 . 2 January 2023.
  6. Web site: Spacecrafts [sic] Launched in 2001 . Claude . Lafleur . 1 October 2004 . 27 May 2015.
  7. News: Delta IV dodges upper level winds and launches with NROL-27 satellite . NASASpaceFlight.com . Graham . William . 11 March 2011 . 15 July 2016.
  8. Web site: NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details . . 1 October 2012.
  9. Web site: Erwin . Sandra . DoD decommissions two missile-tracking satellites after 12 years in orbit . . 14 March 2022 . 15 March 2022.
  10. Web site: Jonathan's Space Report No. 640 . Jonathan McDowell . 18 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324054850/http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.640 . 24 March 2012 . dead .
  11. Web site: USA 238 . National Space Data Science Center . NASA . 24 December 2012.
  12. Web site: United Launch Alliance Delta IV Successfully Launches Global Positioning System Satellite for the US Air Force . United Launch Alliance . 4 October 2012 . 24 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131207160150/http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/News.shtml#/121/ . 7 December 2013 . dead .
  13. Web site: OTV-3 . National Space Data Science Center . NASA . 24 December 2012.
  14. News: U.S. Air Force blames power failure for loss of DMSP-F19 weather satellite . SpaceNews . Mike . Gruss . 25 July 2016.
  15. Web site: CLIO Atlas V Mission Overview . . 2014 . 8 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052645/http://www.ulalaunch.com/uploads/docs/Mission_Booklets/AV/av_clio_mob.pdf . 4 March 2016 . dead .
  16. News: It's not official, but sources say the secretive Zuma satellite was lost . . Eric . Berger . 8 January 2018 . 8 January 2018.
  17. News: Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors in January Spy-Satellite Failure . The Wall Street Journal . Andy . Pasztor . 9 April 2018 . 8 April 2018.
  18. News: Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX, reported to be at fault for loss of top-secret Zuma satellite . Yahoo! Finance . CNBC . Michael . Sheetz . 9 April 2018 . 26 August 2018.
  19. News: Did SpaceX's secret Zuma mission actually fail? . . Loren . Grush . 9 January 2018 . 9 January 2018.
  20. Web site: 2023-03-16 . Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say . Reuters.
  21. Web site: 2023-03-16 . Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say . Reuters.
  22. Jonathan McDowell . planet4589 . 1561108121665380353 . Space-Track has cataloged USA 337, a new payload (presumably 100 kg ESPASat class) ejected from the USSF 12 Ring spacecraft launched on Jul 1 to near-synchronous orbit. However, the orbital elements are currently secret. Catalog is 53521 (2022-073E). . 21 August 2022.
  23. Web site: USN support of the geosynchronous test spacecraft USUVL from USN's Hawaiian earth station. . 10 May 2023 . U.S. Space Force.