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| Name | Type | # | Orbit | Manufacturer | Parameters | Downlinks |
| Argus/Argos | SIGINT | 2? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Chalet (Vortex?) | SIGINT | ? | ? | TRW? | - | ? |
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KH-7 Series (GAMBIT) KH-8 is similar |
Visual Imaging | 38? | LA, sun sync. | GE | 5 in. | Managed from El Segundo (Los Angeles AFB, CA.) |
| KH-11 KENNAN/CRYSTAL |
Visual Imaging | 3? | I:97.1,P:161,A:377
Data for KH-11 last launched
11/6/88 |
Lockheed Martin, TRW, Kodak | Res: 3.937"-3.937" | Fort Belvoir, Va., and Kaneohe Bay MCAB, Hawaii, or Hickam AFB, Hawaii |
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KH-12 (Adv KH-11) Advanced CRYSTAL |
Visual Imaging | 3? | I:97.1,P:161,A:377
Data for KH-11 last launched
11/6/88 |
Lockheed Martin, TRW, Kodak | Res: 3.937"-3.937" | Fort Belvoir, Va., and Kaneohe Bay MCAB, Hawaii, or Hickam AFB, Hawaii |
| LaCross | Radar Imaging | 2? | 200-400 | Lockheed Martin | 3-10 ft. | White Sands, N.M. |
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Misty Most Likely KH-12 |
Visual Imaging | 3? | ?
Stealthy, modified orbit for low
observability |
Lockheed Martin, TRW, Kodak | Res: 3.937"-3.937" | Fort Belvoir, Va., and Kaneohe Bay MCAB, Hawaii, or Hickam AFB, Hawaii |
| Orion/Magnum | SIGINT | 1? | 22.3K | TRW | VHF/UHF | Bad Aibling, Germany; Buckley ANGB, Colo.; Pine Gap, Australia |
| SAMOS | Photo Surveillance | 10 | - | TRW | Ejected Film Capsule | - |
| Trumpet/Mentor/Orion | SIGINT-cell ph.? | 2? | 220x22K | Boeing | VHF | Buckley ANGB, Colorado |
| Parsae | Ocean Surv. | 1? | 600 | TRW | GHz | Various, including shipboard installations |
| Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) | High Volume, secure voice and data |
23+? | GEO | TRW/GE | 1300 voice or 1 100Mbps data
channel,
six SHF channels Ch1: 50MHz,40W; Ch2: 75MHz, 40W; Ch3: 85MHz, 10W; Ch4:85 MHz, 10W; Ch5: 60MHz, 10W; Ch6: 50MHz, 10W |
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| Defense Support Program (DSP) | NUDET/EW | 4+ | 22.3K | TRW/Aerojet | - | Nurrungar, Australia; Buckley ANGB, Colo.; Kapaun, Germany; possibly Ascension Island |
| Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP) | Weather/Geology/NUDET | 2 | 500 | Lockheed Martin | - | Offutt AFB, Nebraska |
| FLTSATCOM | Military Communications System | 8? | GEO | TRW | 6 channels VHF 6 channels UHF | ? |
| LeaseSat | Military Communications Relay | 2 | GEO | Hughes |
Ch 1: X-Band uplink, UHF downlink, 25kHz
BW fleet broadcast spread-spectrum anti-jamming. Ch 2: UHF, 500kHz BW. Ch 3 to 8: UHF, 25kHz BW. Ch 9-13: UHF, 5kHz BW. |
1 X-Band uplink 1 UHF Downlink |
| Milstar | Military Communications Relay | 2 | GEO | Lockheed, Hughes, TRW | 192 (LDR) channels VHF
1 (MDR) channels
UHF with nulling cap. |
? |
| NavStar | Global Positioning System (GPS) | 50+ | GEO | Rockwell | 12 constellations
(6 are block 1 demo units)
20 meters position resolution |
? |
| Satellite Data System (SDS) | Data relay | 2 | 220x22K | Hughes | N channels | Fort Belvoir, Va.; Kaneohe Bay MCAB, Hawaii; Mulford, Britain. |
| Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) | NASA/DoD On Orbit Data Relay | 3+ | ? | Boeing for NASA | 18 separate comm services incl.
Single
Access 300 kbps - Ka and Ku bands, 6 Mbps S-Band. Multiple Access mode receives 3Mbps from 5 spacecraft at once while transmitting to one user 300Kbps |
Used by Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, STARlink, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Landsat (LSAT), the Earth Observing System (EOS), Expendable Launch Vehicle tracking, and the International Space Station and most NASA ground stations. |
| UFO | Mil. Comm | 6? | 1 LEO,
5 GEO |
Hughes | 1 44 GHz uplink, 11 down
21 5Khz BW
channnels on UHF 7 21Khz BW relay channels, 1 21Khz BW fleet broadcast channel |
11 20GHz downlinks |
Also, there is a lot of material on
space imagery satellites
on the
Federation of American Scientists
"Imagery Intelligence" pages. Many of the ISR
(Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconaissance) satellites cannot be
officially confirmed even through FOIA requests and therefore are
speculation.