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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Communications satellites are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and military applications. Many communications satellites are in geostationary...
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observation. Additional military uses are reconnaissance, early warning, signals intelligence and, potentially, weapon delivery. Other satellites include the final...
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SpaceX Starshield (redirect from Starshield (satellite constellation))
SpaceX creating purpose-built low-Earth-orbit satellites designed to provide new "disruptive" military space capabilities to U.S. and allied governments...
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Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Babcock International on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
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Starlink (redirect from SpaceX satellite development facility)
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, an international telecommunications provider that is a wholly owned...
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Semnan Province, used to orbit military satellites for Iran's military space program. The launch of the Noor 1 satellite on April 22, 2020, using the Qased...
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Integrated Space Cell (category Military of India)
and Microsat-R satellites as of 24 January 2019 are dual use satellite available to military also. Of the 900+ operational satellites, there are 320 dual...
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Starlink has since been used by Ukrainian civilians, government and military. The satellite service has served for humanitarian purposes, as well as defense...
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United States Armed Forces (redirect from United States/Military)
detection sensors. Military satellite communication systems include the Fleet Satellite Communications System, UHF Follow-On satellite, and Mobile User...
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The Satellite Data System (SDS) is a system of United States military communications satellites. At least three generations have been used: SDS-1 from...
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The Military Satellite Communications Directorate is a United States Space Force organization headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California....
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Force. These designations have been applied to most United States military satellites since 1984, and replaced the earlier OPS designation. As of June...
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Persian: نور, lit. 'Light') is a class of Iranian military Earth-imaging CubeSat. Three Noor satellites have been launched from the Shahroud Space Center...
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Space-Based Infrared System (redirect from Space Based Infrared Satellite Systems)
Spaceflight Insider. Retrieved 14 November 2017. Clark, Stephen. "U.S. military satellite launched to fortify against missile attacks". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved...
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warning satellite is a satellite designed to rapidly identify ballistic missile launches and thus enable defensive military action. This type of satellite was...
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Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) is a United States Space Force satellite constellation that provides the United States with military communications...
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military satellites to LEO, polar, and geosynchronous orbits. The heaviest payloads launched on Falcon are batches of 24 Starlink V2-Mini satellites weighing...
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satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications. The first generation type (i...
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Global Positioning System (redirect from Global positional satellite)
Defense developed the system, which originally used 24 satellites, for use by the United States military, and became fully operational in 1993. Civilian use...
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the civil weather satellite program; if knowledge of a second military program came out, it would have been hard for the military to justify it.[citation...
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Russian military satellites were given Kosmos designations. Spacecraft include optical reconnaissance satellites, communications satellites, early warning...
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X band or SHF Satellite Communication is widely used by military forces for beyond line of sight communications. X band is used because it provides a compromise...
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A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from...
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the company with few commercial and civil satellite launch customers, and increasingly reliant on U.S. military and spy agency contracts. After the Russian...
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follows an acidic, amoeba-like organism that crashes down to Earth in a military satellite, which devours and dissolves anything in its path as it grows. Filmed...
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Turkish Aerospace Industries (section Satellites)
Earth observation satellite Göktürk-2 (launched 2012), Earth observation satellite Göktürk-3 satellite Türksat 6A, communications satellite TAI operates Turkish...
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (category Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military branches)
satellite. In March 2022, a second launch of the Qased launch vehicle from the shahroud space center put the Noor-2 military reconnaissance satellite...
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24 March 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2020. "Live coverage: South Korean military satellite to launch today from Florida". Spaceflight Now. 20 July 2020. Archived...
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Milstar (redirect from Military Strategic and Tactical Relay satellite)
Milstar (Military Strategic and Tactical Relay) is a constellation of military communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit, which are operated by...
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