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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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    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 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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 (Military Strategic and Tactical Relay) is a constellation of military communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit, which are operated by...
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