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Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider [ 11] that operates and launches lightweight Electron orbital rockets [ 11] used to provide dedicated launch services for small satellites [ 12] as well as a suborbital variant of Electron called HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test ...
The Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range is a test range established in the mid-1960s to test the dynamic performance of aerial survey cameras. [1] The range consisted of 272 concrete calibration markers embedded into the Earth's surface in and around Casa Grande, Arizona, United States. [2] The markers are commonly (and erroneously) believed ...
The recovery of the Discoverer 14 return capsule (typical for the CORONA series) A KH-4B CORONA satellite Discoverer 14 launch 1960, Thor Agena "A" launch vehicle. The Corona [1] program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force.
Goldstone Observatory in 1963. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex ( GDSCC ), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is a satellite ground station located in Fort Irwin [ 1] in the U.S. state of California. Operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), its main purpose is to track and communicate with interplanetary space ...
The United States Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. The system is the responsibility of United States Space Command and operated by the United States Space Force and its functions are:
Illustration of the WGS satellites in its two configurations, known as Block I (left) and Block II (right) The Wideband Global SATCOM system (WGS) is a high capacity United States Space Force satellite communications system planned for use in partnership by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and the Australian Department of Defence. [1]
California is a census-designated place and community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 11,857 at the 2010 census, an increase of 27.4% from the 2000 census. [ 2 ] California has been growing with the spread of population from the older adjacent community of Lexington Park and the growth in both technology ...
Starting in the late 1950s, the United States began development of anti-satellite weapons. The first US anti-satellite weapon was the Bold Orion Weapon System 199B (also the High Virgo missile, Weapon System 199C, attempted to conduct an ASAT test but failed to intercept its target; High Virgo's test was a few weeks before Bold Orion's).