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    Orion, also known as Mentor or Advanced Orion, is a class of United States spy satellites that collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) from space. Operated...
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  • Look up Orion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orion may refer to: Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter Orion (mythology), a hunter...
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    the Bold Orion was used in early anti-satellite weapons testing, performing the first interception of a satellite by a missile. The Bold Orion missile...
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  • Magnum/Orion satellites replaced the older Rhyolite/Aquacade series of SIGINT satellites, and have themselves been succeeded by the Mentor/Advanced Orion satellites...
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    Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists...
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  • USA-223 (category USA satellites)
    identified USA-223 as an Orion satellite; the seventh in the Magnum/Orion series. Orion spacecraft are used for electronic signals intelligence, and carry...
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    USA-268 (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    satellite. Though officially classified, it is presumed to be an Advanced Orion satellite, making it one of the largest and most expensive satellites...
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    adapter ring between the SLS upper stage and the Orion spacecraft, and will be deployed after Orion separates. Selections were initially planned to be...
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    December 2020. "Orion 3, 4". Gunter's Space Page. 25 November 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020. "National Reconnaissance Office Satellite Destroyed 29 August...
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    Supporters of Project Orion felt that it had potential for cheap interplanetary travel. From Project Longshot to Project Daedalus, Mini-Mag Orion, and other proposals...
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    USA-202 (category National Reconnaissance Office satellites)
    United States National Reconnaissance Office. It is an Advanced Orion ELINT satellite. According to Aviation Week, it "fundamentally involves America's...
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    2021-12-19 – via www.youtube.com. Shlepchenko, Vlad (5 July 2022). "Rise of Orion: Russian Birds Are Ready For Fight In The Sky of Donbass". tsargrad. The...
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  • Orion 3 was an American spacecraft which was intended for use by Orion Network Systems, as a geostationary communications satellite. It was to have been...
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    Artemis I (category Orion (spacecraft))
    carrying the Orion spacecraft separated and performed a trans-lunar injection before releasing Orion and deploying ten CubeSat satellites. Orion completed...
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    known as Orion 2, is a Canadian communications satellite in the Telstar series which is operated by Telesat. It was originally built for Orion Network...
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    electronic intelligence which it had collected using two geosynchronous Orion satellites located over the Indian Ocean. In late 1966, during the Cold War, a...
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    Pegasus XL, the first and second stages are lengthened into the Orion 50SXL and Orion 50XL, respectively. Higher stages are unchanged; flight operations...
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    Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, OAO-2 launched in 1968, and the Soviet Orion 1 ultraviolet telescope aboard space station Salyut 1 in 1971. Space telescopes...
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  • Orion 2 or Orion-2 may refer to: Orion 2, a space telescope flown in 1973 aboard the Soyuz 13 spacecraft Orión-2, a sounding rocket from Argentina, used...
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    ASM-135 ASAT (category Anti-satellite missiles)
    before Bold Orion's). Like the ASM-135, the Bold Orion missile was air-launched, but in this case from a B-47 Stratojet. The Bold Orion was tested on...
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  • 1965 and 1966 Orion (space telescope), a space telescope flown in 1971 aboard the Salyut 1 space station Orion 1, a communications satellite launched in...
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  • List of Atlas launches (2020–2029) List of Vulcan launches List of USA satellites List of NRO launches "United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches NROL-44...
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    A military satellite is an artificial satellite used for a military purpose. The most common missions are intelligence gathering, navigation and military...
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    Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes. Although no ASAT system...
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  • Integrated Overhead SIGINT Architecture (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    Documents leaked in 2013 however showed that recent launches had been of Orion satellites - an alternative name for the Mentor series. The same document also...
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    Constellation, including the Orion crew capsule, the Earth Departure Stage secondary booster, and the Altair lunar lander. The Orion spacecraft was designed...
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    rocket) MAN launcher (owned by DLR) MRL Launcher (used for the Orion, Nike-Orion, Taurus-Orion, Nike-Black Brant V, Terrier-Black Brant rockets) Skylark launch...
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  • satellites ever built by" Lockheed Martin. On September 23, 2019, Lockheed Martin and NASA signed a $4.6-billion contract to build six or more Orion capsules...
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    IPA: [zʲɪˈnʲit], Zenith) was a series of military photoreconnaissance satellites launched by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1994. To conceal their nature...
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  • Loral Space & Communications Inc. is a Delaware-domiciled satellite communications company headed by Michael B. Targoff. The company was formed in 1996...
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