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USA-158

American geosynchronous military spacecraft of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) fleet
Vehicle Communications Satellite Q5877323

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
communications satellite, technology demonstration spacecraft[2]
Launch date
2001-05-18
Country of origin
United States[8]
Launch vehicle
Delta II
Manufacturer
TRW Inc., MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Hughes Aircraft Company[4][5][6]
Mass
1,800 kg[14]
Operator
National Reconnaissance Office[3]
Satellite of
geostationary orbit
Significant event
rocket launch (2001)[12]
Space launch vehicle
Delta II[7]
Spacecraft bus
T310[11]
Start point
Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17B[13]
Type of orbit
geostationary orbit[9]
UTC date of spacecraft launch
May 18, 2001[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en GeoLITE en Geosynchronous Lightweight Technology Experiment en USA-158 de USA-158
🔖 Identifiers · 4
COSPAR ID
2001-020A
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1229cjw4
SCN
26770
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Satellite", "26770"]

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🔗 Connections
Manufacturer 3
Hughes Aircraft Company, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, TRW Inc.
Instance of 2
communications satellite, technology demonstration spacecraft
Country of origin 1
United States
Operator 1
National Reconnaissance Office
Significant event 1
rocket launch
Space launch vehicle 1
Delta II
Spacecraft bus 1
T310
Start point 1
Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17B
Type of orbit 1
geostationary orbit
← Used by 1
T310
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Summary

USA-158 is a communications satellite[1].

Related Entities

Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17B communications satellite Delta II T310 technology demonstration spacecraft United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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