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    USA-193, also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL-21 or simply L-21), was a United States military reconnaissance satellite (radar imaging) launched on 14 December...
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    announced that USS Lake Erie (CG-70) would attempt to hit the dead satellite USA-193 over the North Pacific Ocean just before it would burn up on reentry. On...
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    destroy non-functioning U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite USA-193. The mission was described by the Missile Defense Agency as a "mission...
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    deorbited 9 May 2004. Although successful, the program was cancelled in 1988. USA-193 was an American reconnaissance satellite, which was launched on 14 December...
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  • Highway 193 Jordan 193 Eyebrow No. 193, Saskatchewan Lectionary 193 Radical 193 Minuscule 193 Trial of the 193 DFS 193 JWH-193 SP-193 USA-193 ICRF 193 P.S...
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    three ships in the North Pacific to destroy the failed American satellite USA-193 at an altitude of 130 nautical miles (240 kilometers) shortly before atmospheric...
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    impact Starlink – SpaceX satellite constellation and internet service USA-193 – U.S. military satellite (2006–2008) Stenger, Richard (2002-05-03). "Scientist:...
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  • 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...
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    in 1895. Nitrous oxide fuel blend – Class of liquid rocket propellants USA-193 – U.S. military satellite (2006–2008) "NIOSH Guide—Hydrazine". Centers...
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    seven years". Spaceflight portal 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test USA 193 Krebs, Gunter. "Solwind (P78-1)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved March...
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  • International Conference on Management of data (SIGMOD '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 193–204. doi:10.1145/1989323.1989345. Erlingsson, Úlfar, Vasyl Pihur and Aleksandra...
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    Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) in 2011. On 14 December 2006, with the launch of USA-193, was the first launch of the Delta II operated by United Launch Alliance...
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    several months. Satellite watching hobbyists said that it was likely the USA-193, built by Lockheed Martin Corporation, which failed shortly after achieving...
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    Lake Erie and two other ships would attempt to hit the failed satellite USA-193 in the north Pacific just prior to burn up during a period after 20 February...
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  • missile test. The 2008 destruction of the USA-193 military reconnaissance satellite in a decaying orbit by a USA SM-3 missile. The 2019 destruction of Microsat-R...
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    USS Shiloh (CG-67) USS Lake Erie (CG-70), 21 Feb 2008 shot down the errant USA 193 satellite with a modified SM3 missile. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Arleigh...
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    (FL)   Wallops Island (VA)   Mahia (New Zealand) Spaceflight portal List of USA satellites Zuma (satellite) Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive – US Military...
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  • (September 5, 2007). "Sen. Johnson welcomed back to work". USA Today. Retrieved September 12, 2010. "USA 193 data". NASA. Retrieved October 13, 2009. Brown, Angela...
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    February 21, 2008, the U.S. used an SM-3 missile to destroy a spy satellite, USA-193, while it was 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) above the Pacific Ocean...
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    satellites in the lower portion of low Earth orbit. On February 20, 2008, USA 193 was destroyed by a group of Aegis ships in the Pacific; the stated reason...
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    against the country that launched the space object that caused the damage. USA-193 Kosmos 954 Skylab Space law Outer Space Treaty Moon Treaty Rescue Agreement...
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    South Pacific Ocean. On February 21, 2008, a disabled U.S. spy satellite, USA-193, was hit at an altitude of approximately 246 kilometers (153 mi) with an...
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    Conference USA (CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States and Western United...
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  • February 20 – The United States Navy destroys an American spy satellite, USA 193, with a missile, prompting international speculation that it is testing...
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    2008 the United States similarly destroyed its malfunctioning satellite USA 193. In 2019, India destroyed a live satellite. and on 15 November 2021, Kosmos...
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    Missile 3 was used as an anti-satellite weapon to destroy the USA-193 satellite. USA-193 was a US spy satellite which had failed immediately after launch...
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  • 2020, p. 193. Gaar 2016, p. 83. Zanes 2023, pp. 223–224. Himes 2005, p. 88. Sodomsky, Sam (August 8, 2021). "Bruce Springsteen: Born in the U.S.A. Album...
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    Molczan in relation to the story about falling American spy satellite USA-193. American officials were reluctant to provide information about the satellite...
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    On 3 April 2012, a second satellite, USA-234 or NROL-25, was launched into a similar orbit. The earlier USA-193 satellite, launched in 2006, is believed...
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    FY-1C, Russian trials of its PL-19 Nudol, the American interception of USA-193 and India's interception of an unstated live satellite. Space debris includes...
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