Past Missions
Below is a list of all previous Astrotech missions. To filter by a different criterion, click on one of the filter options.
| Company | Vehicle | Launch Site | Launch Date | Mission or Payload |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | May 4, 2012 |
AEHF-2 The Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite is designed to be secure, survivable, and resistant to attempted jamming, and will provide communications for the US military, as well as the armed forces of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Feb 25, 2012 |
MUOS 1 The MUOS-1 satellite will ensure continued mission capability of the existing Ultra-High Frequency Satellite Communications (UHF SATCOM) system, and represents deployment of the first satellite in the next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system. |
| ASO | Delta IV Medium | CCAFS | Jan 20, 2012 |
WGS-4 The primary mission of WGS has become supplementing and eventually replacing the Defense Satellite communications System, or DSCS. Having started as a U.S. program, WGS has grown to include several other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Oct 28, 2011 |
NPP The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership mission represents a critical first step in building the next-generation Earth-observing satellite system that will collect data on both long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Sep 10, 2011 |
GRAIL GRAIL’s primary science objectives will be to determine the structure of the lunar interior, from crust to core and to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the Moon. |
| ASO | Minotaur IV | VAFB | Aug 11, 2011 |
HTV-2B The HTV-2 flights were made as part of the Force Application and Launch From Continental United States (FALCON) programme, which is being conducted by the US Air Force and DARPA. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Aug 5, 2011 |
Juno NASA's Juno mission will study how Jupiter formed and evolved. After a five-year journey, the spacecraft is expected to arrive at the gas giant planet in August 2016. Juno will investigate the composition of the planet's core, which could help researchers piece together how Jupiter and the rest of the solar system formed. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Mar 6, 2011 |
OTV-2 The launch marks the start of the X-37 B programme's second space mission. The OTV was designed to examine how highly complex technologies will perform in space before they are made operational. OTV was the first vehicle since NASA's shuttle orbiter capable of returning experiments to Earth for further inspection and analysis. |
| ASO | Taurus XL | VAFB | Mar 4, 2011 |
Glory The Glory satellite was a planned NASA satellite mission that would have collected data on the chemical, micro-physical and optical properties—and the spatial and temporal distributions—of sulfate and other aerosols, and would have collected solar irradiance data for the long-term climate record. The satellite was lost during launch, when its Taurus XL carrier rocket malfunctioned. |
| ASO | Delta IV Heavy | VAFB | Jan 20, 2011 |
L-49 L-49 is a classified payload put into orbit for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Nov 5, 2010 |
COSMO-SkyMed 4 The COSMO-SkyMed programme is a partnership between ASI (the Italian Space Agency), the Italian Ministry of Defence, and e-GEOS, a commercial organisation. It consists of four satellites, of which COSMO-4 will be the last, which have all been launched by Delta II rockets over the last three and a half years. |
| ASO | Minotaur IV | VAFB | Sep 26, 2010 |
SBSS The SBSS system will revolutionize the nation's Space Situational Awareness by detecting and monitoring dimmer, most distant objects than ever before. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Aug 14, 2010 |
AEHF-1 AEHF is a joint service satellite communications system that will provide survivable, global, secure, protected, and jam-resistant communications for high-priority military ground, sea and air assets. |
| ASO | Atlantis | KSC | May 14, 2010 |
MRM-1 The Mini-Research Module 1 became the fifth permanent element of the International Space Station built by Russia. The spacecraft was essentially a stopgap measure to fill the nadir (Earth-facing) docking port on the Zarya FGB control module of the outpost. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Apr 22, 2010 |
X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Based on NASA's X-37 design, the unmanned OTV is designed for vertical launch to low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing. |
ASO | Minotaur IV | VAFB | Apr 22, 2010 |
Falcon HTV-2 The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) is part of "Prompt Global Strike," a US military effort to develop bombers that can strike targets with conventional weapons anywhere on the planet within minutes. |
| ASO | Delta IV | CCAFS | Mar 4, 2010 |
GOES-P GOES-P is the sixteenth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), and the last of the three current-generation GOES-N series spacecraft. Once it reaches its operational geostationary orbit, it will be renamed GOES 15. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Feb 11, 2010 |
SDO The SDO is the culmination of decades of solar research, providing a balance between understanding the small-scale dynamics of plasma and magnetic fields on the solar surface and gaining a wide-angle view of the entire solar disk. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Dec 14, 2009 |
WISE WISE is a NASA-funded Explorer mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies. |
| ASO | Delta IV | CCAFS | Dec 5, 2009 |
WGS-3 The WGS satellites are important elements of a new high-capacity satellite communications system providing enhanced communications capabilities to America's troops around the world for the next decade and beyond. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Nov 23, 2009 |
Intelsat 14 The Intelsat 14 spacecraft is a communication satellite which will be placed in geosynchronous orbit at a longitude of 45 degrees west. It carries sixty-two transponders, which will be used to provide coverage of Africa, America and Europe. It will replace the nine-year old Intelsat 1R satellite. |
| ASO | ARES 1X | CCAFS | Oct 28, 2009 |
ARES 1X First Stage Ares I-X was the first stage prototype and design concept demonstrator in the Ares I program, a launch system for human spaceflight developed by the United States space agency. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Oct 8, 2009 |
WorldView-2 WorldView-2 is DigitalGlobe’s third satellite in a constellation of spacecraft that offers the highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery of Earth. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Sep 25, 2009 |
STSS Demo STSS Demo is an element of the STSS Program, a space-based sensor component of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System designed for the overall mission of detection, tracking, and discrimination of ballistic missiles. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Sep 8, 2009 |
PAN “Palladium At Night,” or PAN, is a classified communications satellite, which was built by the Special Programs division of Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the US Government. However, the agency responsible for operating the spacecraft has not been disclosed. |
| ASO | Delta IV | CCAFS | Jun 27, 2009 |
GOES-O GOES-O will provide enhanced weather monitoring and prediction capability, communications subsystems to rebroadcast data, and space environmental monitoring instruments and sensors. In addition, the satellite will provide more accurate location of severe storms and other weather phenomena, resulting in earlier and more precise warnings to the public. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Jun 18, 2009 |
LRO/LCROSS LRO will remotely sense evidence of resources such as water ice in cold regions of the moon. The mission will also carry another spacecraft, LCROSS, which will directly determine if water ice occurs in an area of permanent shadow near the lunar poles. |
| ASO | Zenit - 3SL | Sea Launch | Apr 20, 2009 |
Sicral 1B Sicral 1B will provide strategic and tactical communications services for the Italian armed forces, in Italy and abroad, as well as ensuring mobile communications with land, naval and air platforms. It will also provide NATO forces with UHF and SHF SATCOM capabilities. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Apr 3, 2009 |
WGS-2 The WGS-2 mission is the second installment of the WGS system. The WGS satellites are important elements of a new high-capacity satellite communications system providing enhanced communications capabilities to America's troops around the world for the next decade and beyond. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Mar 6, 2009 |
Kepler The Kepler mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. |
| ASO | Taurus XL | VAFB | Feb 24, 2009 |
OCO The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is a NASA satellite mission intended to provide global space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Oct 24, 2008 |
COSMO-SkyMed 3 COSMO-3 is the third satellite of the COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) constellation. |
| ASO | Pegasus | VAFB | Oct 19, 2008 |
IBEX The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission science objective is to discover the nature of the interactions between the solar wind and the interstellar medium at the edge of our solar system. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Sep 24, 2008 |
Galaxy-19 Galaxy 19 will offer government and network customers refreshed capacity, with seamless data communications for years to come. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Sep 6, 2008 |
GeoEye-1 GeoEye-1 is part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) NextView program. The NextView program is designed to ensure that the NGA has access to commercial imagery in support of its mission to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jul 16, 2008 |
EchoStar-11 The EchoStar XI spacecraft is designed for an orbital service life of 15 years, with 20kW of power to support the expansion of DISH Network's capacity and capabilities to customers throughout the United States. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Jun 20, 2008 |
OSTM The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on the Jason-2 satellite is an international Earth observation satellite mission that continues the sea surface height measurements begun in 1992 by the joint NASA/CNES TOPEX/Poseidon mission and followed by the NASA/CNES Jason-1 mission launched in 2001. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jun 11, 2008 |
GLAST GLAST, now renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | May 21, 2008 |
Galaxy-18 The Galaxy-18 satellite will enable Intelsat to provide advanced cable television, data and telecommunications services to customers throughout North America, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Apr 14, 2008 |
ICO G1 ICO G1 will provide S band mobile communications for satellite phones. It is the heaviest satellite to be launched by an Atlas rocket, and the heaviest single commercial satellite to be launched into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Mar 18, 2008 |
DirectTV-11 The satellite is designed to optimize DirecTV's advanced transmission techniques and state-of-the-art video compression technology for delivering national high-definition (HD) programming and local HD channels to subscribers throughout the United States. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jan 15, 2008 |
Thuraya-3 The mobile communications satellite will expand Thuraya's network coverage to include all key markets of the Asia-Pacific region. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Dec 8, 2007 |
COSMO-2 The overall objective of the COSMO program is global Earth observation and relevant data responding to the needs of the military and scientific community, as well as to the public demand for environmental control. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Oct 10, 2007 |
WGS-1 WGS-1 is a high capacity satellite communications system planned for use in partnership by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the Australian Department of Defense. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Sep 27, 2007 |
DAWN Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Sep 18, 2007 |
WorldView WorldView-1 is a commercial earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. The satellite will free capacity on DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite to meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral geospatial imagery. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 4, 2007 |
Phoenix (PAM) As the very first of NASA's Mars Scout class, Phoenix combines legacy and innovation in a framework of a true partnership: government, academia, and industry. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Jun 7, 2007 |
COSMOS (SkyMed-1) COSMO-SkyMed is an Earth observation satellite system funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Ministry of Defence and conducted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), intended for both military and civilian use. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Mar 9, 2007 |
STP-1 STP-1 was the first time the Air Force launched six unique satellites at once. The six spacecraft represent a wide variety of scientific experiments and technology demonstrations from across the DOD, including the Air Force, Navy, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Department of Energy. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jan 30, 2007 |
NSS-8 NSS-8 will provide global communications network coverage to two-thirds of the world’s population, serving countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Asia. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Oct 30, 2006 |
XM-4 XM-4 will accommodate XM's direct broadcast of radio programming to cars, homes and portable radios throughout the continental United States and parts of Canada. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Oct 25, 2006 |
STEREO STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits around the sun that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth. This will enable stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Aug 22, 2006 |
KoreaSat 5 KoreaSat 5 will operate on behalf of South Korea's Agency for Defense Development and the KT Corporation - a leading telecommunications provider in the Asia-Pacific region. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jun 18, 2006 |
Galaxy 16 Galaxy 16 provides coverage for data and video services, including high-definition television (HDTV) broadcasts and IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), across the entire United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, in addition to Canada and Mexico. |
| ASO | Delta IV | CCAFS | May 24, 2006 |
GOES-N The multimission GOES series N-P is the next series of satellites. This series will be a vital contributor to weather, solar and space operations, and science. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are actively engaged in a cooperative program to expand the existing GOES system with the launch of the GOES N-P satellites. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Apr 28, 2006 |
CloudSAT and CALIPSO NASA launched the CloudSat and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) spacecraft to study the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth's weather, climate and air quality. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Apr 20, 2006 |
Astra 1KR The ASTRA satellite system is the leading direct-to-home (DTH) satellite system in Europe, delivering services to some 107 million direct-to-home and cable households. The ASTRA satellite fleet currently comprises 13 satellites, transmitting in excess of 1,600 analog and digital television and radio channels as well as multimedia and Internet services. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Apr 12, 2006 |
JCSAT-9 JCSAT-9 joins nine other JSAT spacecraft currently in orbit, covering North America, Hawaii, Asia and Oceania with communications and broadcasting services for corporate and inter-company networks as well as international telecommunications services. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Feb 16, 2006 |
Echostar The Echostar spacecraft is designed to deliver direct-to-home broadcast services to DISH Network customers throughout the United States. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Nov 8, 2005 |
Inmarsat-4 Inmarsat-4 is designed to provide high-speed mobile service to people throughout the Americas during its 13-year service life. It is one in a series of satellites designed to support the Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN). |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jun 23, 2005 |
Intelsat Americas-8 (IA-8) The IA-8 satellite is designed to provide expanded coverage over the Americas, the Caribbean, Hawaii and Alaska with voice, video and data transmission and distribution services. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Apr 26, 2005 |
Spaceway F-1 Spaceway F-1 will provide high definition television to DIRECTV customers with its Ka-band communications payload. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Mar 11, 2005 |
Inmarsat-4 PFM The Inmarsat-4 PFM (or F1) spacecraft becomes the cornerstone in a sophisticated network providing mobile broadband communications services spanning the globe for users at sea, in the air, and on land. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Feb 28, 2005 |
XM-3 The XM-3 spacecraft is a revised model from its two predecessors, which were deployed in 2001 before engineers discovered a crippling design flaw that degrades the power-generating capacity as the satellites age. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jan 12, 2005 |
NASA - DEEP IMPACT The Deep Impact mission was planned to help answer fundamental questions about comets, which included what makes up the composition of the comet's nucleus, what depth the crater would reach from the impact, and where the comet originated in its formation. |
| ASO | Delta IV Heavy | CCAFS | Dec 22, 2004 |
Heavy Demo The demonstration flight of the Delta 4-Heavy is a means of testing the rocket before critical national security payloads begin flying aboard the vehicle. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | Dec 17, 2004 |
AMC-16 The purpose of the AMC-16 sattelite is to expand SES AMERICOM's world-wide fleet of satellites, which provide global distribution of cable, broadcast television and radio programming, mobile communications, business television, broadband data and telecommunications services. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 3, 2004 |
NASA - MESSENGER MESSENGER is a robotic NASA spacecraft orbiting the planet Mercury, the first spacecraft ever to do so. The instruments carried by MESSENGER were tested on a complex series of flybys – the spacecraft flew by Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury itself three times, allowing it to decelerate relative to Mercury using minimal fuel. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Jul 15, 2004 |
NASA - AURA Aura is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. It is the third major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) following on Terra (launched 1999) and Aqua (launched 2002). |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jun 28, 2004 |
TELSTAR-18 The satellite provides Ku-band voice, video and data services to China, Hawaii, and East Asia, and C-band services to other parts of the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia and Hawaii. The new satellite is also used to provide space-based Internet backbone services for the main cities of Asia to and from the U.S. through Hawaii. |
| ASO | Taurus | VAFB | May 20, 2004 |
ROCSAT-2 ROCSAT-2 was built by EADS for Taiwan's National Space Program Office (NSPO). The spacecraft carries panchromatic and multispectral instruments to observe Taiwan and its surrounding waters, as well as an instrument to monitor lightning in the upper atmosphere. |
| ASO | Atlas 2AS | CCAFS | May 19, 2004 |
AMC-11 AMC-11 will provide cable television services to all 50 United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. AMC-11 will take the place of Satcom C-3. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | May 4, 2004 |
DirectTV-7S DirecTV-7S will use highly focused spot beam technology to provide DIRECTV with the capacity to deliver local channels to 41 additional markets, expanding local channel coverage to a total of 106 markets. |
| ASO | Atlas 3 | CCAFS | Mar 13, 2004 |
MBSAT The new spacecraft will be a version of Loral’s space-proven three-axis, body-stabilized 1300 bus. The spacecraft's system will be able to broadcast more than 50 programs simultaneously. |
| ASO | Atlas 2AS | CCAFS | Feb 02, 2004 |
AMC-10 AMC-10 will provide cable television services to all 50 United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. The satellite will take the place of the retiring Lockheed Martin-built Satcom C-4. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jan 10, 2004 |
Telstar 14 / Estrela do Sul 1 The satellite will support business applications such as broadcast video and cable programming, Internet backbone connectivity, VSAT data and other telecommunications services. |
| ASO | Atlas 3B | CCAFS | Dec 17, 2003 |
UFO F-11 UFO F-11 will provide UHF and enhanced EHF communications. The UHF payload incorporates a new UHF digital receiver, providing two additional UHF channels and greater flexibility in configuring communication services. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Sep 30, 2003 |
Galaxy XIII / Horizons-1 The satellite will be used to offer a variety of digital video, Internet and data services. Using a Hawaii-based relay station, the satellite's Ku-band payload also will be able to deliver content and services between the United States and Asia. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Aug 7, 2003 |
Echostar IX / Telstar 13 EchoStar has equipped the spacecraft with the first commercial Ka-band spot-beam payload in the United States. In addition, Loral Skynet will own and operate the satellite's C-band capacity, which will provide television programmers with North American coverage. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jun 10, 2003 |
Thuraya D-2 The Boeing GEO-Mobile satellite was built for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company of United Arab Emirates to support Thuraya's mobile data and voice services business. |
| ASO | Atlas V | CCAFS | May 13, 2003 |
HellasSat 2 Two of the spacecraft's deployable antennas will provide Pan European coverage, including Greece, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, while two steerable beams can be moved to cover South Africa and the Middle East. |
| ASO | Atlas 3B | CCAFS | Apr 11, 2003 |
AsiaSat 4 AsiaSat will use the spacecraft to provide communications, direct-to-home and broadband services to customers in Asia and Australia. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Jan 12, 2003 |
NASA ICESat / CHIPSat ICESat is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. CHIPSat is a University-Class Explorer (UNEX) mission funded by NASA. |
| ASO | Titan II | VAFB | Jan 6, 2003 |
Coriolis The Air Force Coriolis mission will fly the Navy Windsat microwave polarimetric radiometer and Air Force Solar Mass Ejection Imager in a low Earth, sun synchronous orbit. |
| ASO | Delta IV (debut launch) |
CCAFS | Nov 20, 2002 |
Eutelsat W-5 The W5 fixed widebeam will offer unparalleled Ku-band connectivity stretching from Western Europe through the Middle East and Central Asia to Southern Asia. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Sep 18, 2002 |
Hispasat-1D Hispasat-1D, along with Hispasat-1C (launched 2000) offers pan-European and pan-American multi-area coverage. This coverage can extend to certain areas of North Africa. The flexibility offered by the satellite's design will allow users to benefit from intercontinental links between Europe and the Americas. |
| ASO | Atlas V (debut launch) |
CCAFS | Aug 21, 2002 |
Eutelsat Hotbird-6 Hotbird-6 delivers digital television and radio channels to satellite and cable homes in Europe, North Africa and large parts of the Middle East, reinforcing one of the largest broadcasting systems in Europe. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Jun 15, 2002 |
PanAmSat's Galaxy IIIC Galaxy IIIC will provide Internet, video, audio and data services to the United States and Latin America. |
| ASO | Atlas-IIIB | CCAFS | Feb 21, 2002 |
EchoStar-7 EchoStar 7 will replace EchoStar 4, which has experienced a series of anomalies impacting its performance. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Feb 11, 2002 |
Iridium IS-1 Iridium IS-1 is one satellite in the Iridium satellite constellation. The large group of satellites provides voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over Earth's entire surface. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Oct 18, 2001 |
QuickBird-2 Digital images taken from orbit by the QuickBird-2 satellite are expected to rival aerial photography in terms of both cost and possible economic and scientific applications. |
| ASO | Taurus | VAFB | Sep 21, 2001 |
Orbview-4 / QUICKTOMS The OrbView-4 satellite is a high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging satellite. QuickTOMS is an ozone mapping instrument designed for NASA. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 8, 2001 |
NASA's Genesis The Genesis spacecraft was a NASA sample return probe which collected a sample of solar wind and returned it to Earth for analysis. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | Jul 23, 2001 |
GOES-M The GOES I-M satellites are the primary element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and are a key component of NOAA's National Weather Service operations and modernization program. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jun 30, 2001 |
NASA - Microwave Anisotopy Probe (MAP) (PAM) MAP will scan the sky for over two years, gathering information on the faint cosmic glow. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Jun 19, 2001 |
ICO F-2 ICO F-2 will provide wireless messaging, data transfer, telephone and Internet connectivity using small hand-held devices that can be used worldwide. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | May 18, 2001 |
GeoLITE (PAM) GeoLITE is an advanced technology demonstration satellite with a laser communications experiment and an operational UHF communications mission. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | May 8, 2001 |
XM-1 "Roll" XM-1 will join another XM satellite in orbit and the two satellites will blanket the entire lower 48 states, working in tandem to relay XM Satellite Radio's programming to special receiving radios installed in subscribers' cars and trucks and portable units that you can take anywhere. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Apr 7, 2001 |
NASA's Mars Odyssey (PAM) The robotic spacecraft will use spectrometers and electronic imagers to detect evidence of past or present water and volcanic activity on Mars. It is hoped that the data Odyssey obtains will help answer the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. |
| ASO | Zenit-3SL | Sea Launch | Mar 18, 2001 |
XM-2 " Rock" The XM-2 satellite is designed to provide state-of-the-art digital audio radio programming directly to cars, homes and portable radios coast to coast. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jan 30, 2001 |
GPS - IIR7 (PAM) GPS IIR-7 will join 28 other operational GPS satellites now on orbit. This satellite will improve global coverage and increase the overall performance of the GPS constellation. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Nov 21, 2000 |
EO-1 / SAC-C The Earth Observing-1 Mission (EO-1) satellite is part of NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP). SAC-C is part of the AM Constellation together with NASA's Landsat 7, TERRA and EO-1. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Nov 10, 2000 |
GPS - IIR6 (PAM) GPS - IIR6 (USA-154) is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. |
| ASO | Zenit 3SL | Sea Launch | Oct 20, 2000 |
THURAYA 1 THURAYA 1 is a turnkey satellite system that will expand mobile telephone service availability to approximately 1.8 billion people in 100 countries. |
| ASO | Zenit 3SL | Sea Launch | Jul 28, 2000 |
PANAMSAT 9 PANAMSAT 9 is designed to deliver video distribution, data relay and Internet services throughout the Americas, the Caribbean and western Europe. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Jul 14, 2000 |
ECHOSTAR - VI ECHOSTAR - VI provides broadcast and communications services to Europe using wide-band feeds. |
| ASO | Atlas IIIA | CCAFS | May 24, 2000 |
EUTELSAT - W4 EUTELSAT - W4 provides communications services to Russia and Africa. It carries thirty one transponders, and has an expected on-orbit lifespan of 12 years. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | May 3, 2000 |
GOES - L The GOES I-M satellites are the primary element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and are a key component of NOAA's National Weather Service operations and modernization program. |
| ASO | Zenit 3SL | Sea Launch | Mar 12, 2000 |
ICO - F1 The ICO-F1 satellite was to be the developmental testbed for the company's global system, preparing the foundation for the subsequent launch of the rest of ICO's constellation of 10 operational satellites. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Feb 8, 2000 |
GLOBALSTAR - 7 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Feb 3, 2000 |
HISPASAT - 1C HISPASAT - 1C provides communications services to Europe and the Americas. It is expected to remain in service until at least 2015. |
| ASO | Taurus | VAFB | Dec 20, 1999 |
KOMPSAT Korea's KOMPSAT program's objective is the development of a national space segment in Earth observation along with an efficient infrastructure and ground segment to provide valuable services to remote sensing users in various fields of applications. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | VAFB | Dec 18, 1999 |
EOS-AM-1 (Terra) Terra (formerly EOS AM-1) is the flagship satellite of NASA's Earth observing systems. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Nov 22, 1999 |
UHF F/O - F10 UHF Follow-on satellite provides UHF and EHF communications, and Global Broadcast Service television for the US Navy. |
| ASO | Zenit 3SL | Sea Launch | Oct 9, 1999 |
DIRECTV - 1R DIRECTV - 1R will be used to deliver new programming services, expand channel capacity, and strengthen in-orbit redundancy. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Sep 23, 1999 |
ECHOSTAR - V EchoStar V will add 150 more audio and video channels to the existing 350 channels of programming available on EchoStar's DISH Network. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 17, 1999 |
GLOBALSTAR - 6 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jul 25, 1999 |
GLOBALSTAR - 5 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jul 10, 1999 |
GLOBALSTAR - 4 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jun 10, 1999 |
GLOBALSTAR - 3 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Delta III | CCAFS | May 4, 1999 |
ORION 3 Orion 3 was an American spacecraft which was intended for use by Loral Space & Communications as a geostationary communications satellite. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Apr 12, 1999 |
EUTELSAT - W3 EUTELSAT - W3 is designed to serve Europe, the Middle East and North Africa through a highpower footprint optimised for direct-to-home pay-TV, video exchanges, VSAT networks and broadband services. |
| ASO | Zenit 3SL | Sea Launch | Mar 27, 1999 |
SEA LAUNCH DEMO DemoSat was the first Boeing Sea Launch mission. |
| ASO | Pegasus | VAFB | Mar 4, 1999 |
WIRE The Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) was a small satellite carrying a cryogenically cooled infrared telescope designed to study starburst galaxies. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Feb 15, 1999 |
JCSAT - 6 The new satellite will allow JSAT to meet increased customer demand for multimedia and Internet access and will carry voice, data and television signals to Japan. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Nov 22, 1998 |
BONUM - 1 BONUM-1 serves European or West-Siberian parts of Russia, selectable on-orbit by ground command. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Nov 6, 1998 |
IRIDIUM MS-11 This will be the eleventh Delta II launch for the Iridium system, a global wireless communication network combining the worldwide reach of 66 low-Earth orbit satellites with land-based wireless systems to enable subscribers to connect with hand-held telephones and pagers virtually anywhere in the world. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Oct 20, 1998 |
UHF F/O - F9 UHF F/O F9 incorporates a Global Broadcast Service payload to greatly enhance the communications capability of the satellite. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Oct 9, 1998 |
HOTBIRD - 5 HOTBIRD - 5 was later renamed Eurobird 2 and then finally Arabsat 2D. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Sep 8, 1998 |
IRIDIUM MS-10 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Delta III | CCAFS | Aug 26, 1998 |
GALAXY X Galaxy X was to significantly increase PanAmSat's domestic U.S. communications capabilities, delivering analog as well as digital cable TV channels and serving as a major pipeline for satellite-based telecommunications networks in the United States. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Jun 18, 1998 |
INTELSAT - 805 The INTELSAT system provides voice/data and video services to customers around the world. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jun 9, 1998 |
THOR III THOR III will provide Ku-band and direct-to-home digital television to Norway and Northern Europe. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | May 17, 1998 |
IRIDIUM MS-9 The IRIDIUM MS-9 communications satellite was successfully put into orbit by a Delta II rocket. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Apr 24, 1998 |
GLOBALSTAR - 2 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Mar 29, 1998 |
IRIDIUM MS-8 The IRIDIUM MS-8 communications satellite was successfully put into orbit by a Delta II rocket. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | Mar 16, 1998 |
UHF F/O - F8 UHF F/O - F8 incorporates a Global Broadcast Service payload to greatly enhance the communications capability of the satellite. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Feb 27, 1998 |
INTELSAT - 806 INTELSAT 806 will serve an extensive video cable community in the Americas, with access to over 2,000 cablehead ends in Latin America. This was the 29th INTELSAT satellite to launch on an Atlas launch vehicle. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Feb 18, 1998 |
IRIDIUM MS-7 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Feb 14, 1998 |
GLOBALSTAR - 1 The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. |
| ASO | Taurus | VAFB | Feb 10, 1998 |
GEOSAT GEOdetic SATellite (GEOSAT) was a US Navy satellite designed to measure sea surface heights to within 5 cm. After a one-and-a-half year long classified mission for the Navy, Geosat's scientific Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) began. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jan 9, 1998 |
SKYNET - 4D The SKYNET - 4D program mission objective is to provide communications capability for the UK military satellite communications system. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Dec 20, 1997 |
IRIDIUM MS-6 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Dec 8, 1997 |
GALAXY - 8i GALAXY - 8i provides DIRECTV service to Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Nov 8, 1997 |
IRIDIUM MS-5 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Oct 5, 1997 |
ECHOSTAR - III EchoStar III will join the EchoStar I and II satellites in expanding the service of the company's DISH NetworkTM satellite system, which provides television programming to its customers throughout the U.S. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Sep 26, 1997 | IRIDIUM MS-4 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Sep 4, 1997 |
GE - 3 GE-3, renamed AMC-3, is a commercial broadcast communications satellite. It provides coverage to the continental United States, Canada, the Caribbean islands, southern Greenland, and Central America. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Aug 20, 1997 |
IRIDIUM MS-3 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Jul 27, 1997 |
SUPERBIRD - C SUPERBIRD-C provides television signals and business communications services throughout Japan, southern and eastern Asia, and Hawaii using Ku-band frequencies. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | Jul 9, 1997 |
IRIDIUM MS-2 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | May 20, 1997 |
THOR IIA THOR IIA will deliver direct-to-home television programming to the Nordic countries via the Ku-band. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAFB | May 5, 1997 |
IRIDIUM MS-1 The IRIDIUM system was designed to communicate with hand-held wireless telephones worldwide. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Apr 25, 1997 |
GOES - K GOES-K was the third spacecraft launched by the NASA ELV team in the new advanced series of geostationary weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Mar 8, 1997 |
TEMPO - FM2 TEMPO - FM2 (and FM1) has twice the power and capacity of comparable satellites. However a solar flare in 1997 knocked out three of the spacecraft's transponders and damaged the solar array. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Feb 16, 1997 |
JCSAT - 4 JCSAT-4 will relay voice, data, television signals via Ku-band to eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, India. The same will be relayed to eastern and southern Asia and Hawaii via C-band. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Dec 17, 1996 |
INMARSAT 3 - F3 INMARSAT 3 - F3 will provide broadcasting, business services and mobile communications to Pacific Ocean Region. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Nov 21, 1996 |
HOTBIRD - 2 HOT BIRD 2 will be operated by EUTELSAT, the Paris-based consortium of 45 member nations and signatories, which is a leading provider of satellite-based communication and broadcast services to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Sep 8, 1996 |
GE - 1 AMERICOM GE-1 is owned by GE Americom and is a continuation of the old RCA/GE Satcom series. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | Jul 25, 1996 |
EHF F7 This seventh satellite in the UHF F/O Program incorporates extremely-high frequency (EHF) capability. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | May 23, 1996 |
GALAXY - IX GALAXY - IX is dedicated to cable television transmission across the United States. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Apr 30, 1996 |
SAX SAX (X-ray Astronomy Satellite) was developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in cooperation with the Dutch Space Agency (NIVR) to investigate celestial X-ray sources from inside and outside our galaxy. The satellite was built by Alenia Spazio. |
| ASO | Delta II | VAB | Apr 24, 1996 |
MSX The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) represents the first system demonstration in space of technology to identify and track ballistic missiles during their midcourse flight phase. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Apr 3, 1996 |
INMARSAT 3 - F1 INMARSAT 3 - F1 provideS global mobile and remote area communications services on land, at sea and in the air. Inmarsat is an internationally owned cooperative headquartered in London, and it presently has 79 member nations. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Jan 31, 1996 |
PALAPA - C1 PALAPA - C1 will provide C-band and Ku-band transmissions to an area centered on the Pacific Rim extending from Iran to Vladivostok and south to Sydney and New Zealand. |
| ASO | STS-72 (Endeavour) | CCAFS | Jan 20, 1996 |
Space Flyer Unit (post-retrieval) The mission of the Space Flyer Unit (SFU) was to verify the effectiveness of retrieval and reuse system by conducting launch, in-orbit experiments and retrieval, in addition to conduct scientific and engineering experiments and astronomical observations in orbit. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jan 14, 1996 |
KOREASAT - 2 The purpose of the KOREASAT - 2 satellite was to provide broadcasting and telecommunications to South Korea. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Dec 14, 1995 |
GALAXY - 3R GALAXY - 3R is used to provide video and telecommunications services throughout the United States. The satellite's Ku-band capacity can also be switched to provide coverage of Latin America. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | Oct 22, 1995 |
EHF F6 EHF F6 is a communications satellite operated by the US military. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Aug 28, 1995 |
JCSAT - 3 JCSAT-3 will relay voice, data, television signals via Ku-band to eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, India. The same will be relayed to eastern and southern Asia and Hawaii via C-band. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 5, 1995 |
KOREASAT - 1 KOREASAT - 1 will provide TV coverage for South Korea and other Asian countries. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | May 31, 1995 |
EHF F5 EHF F5 will provide additional protected communications for the US military. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | May 23, 1995 |
GOES - J GOES - J was an American weather satellite, which formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Apr 7, 1995 |
MSAT MSAT is a satellite-based mobile telephony service developed by the National Research Council of Canada. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Mar 22, 1995 |
INTELSAT VII - F5 INTELSAT VII - F5 will provide global dissemination of voice, video, and data transmission services. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | Jan 28, 1995 |
EHF F4 EHF F4 will support the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Jan 10, 1995 |
INTELSAT VII - F4 INTELSAT VII - F4 will provide global dissemination of voice, video, and data transmission services. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Nov 29, 1994 |
ORION 1 ORION 1 will provide video for broadcast and business television, high-speed Internet access and multimedia services, broadband and data networking to Europe, the United States to the Rocky Mountains and parts of Canada and Mexico. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Oct 6, 1994 |
INTELSAT VII - F3 INTELSAT VII - F3 will provide global dissemination of voice, video, and data transmission services. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Aug 3, 1994 |
DIRECTV - 2 DIRECTV - 2 has the capability to provide 150 channels of programs. It carries a time capsule named SpaceArc containing a message from the current Vice President of the United States. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Jun 24, 1994 |
UHF F/O - F3 UHF F/O - F3 supports the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Apr 13, 1994 |
GOES - I The GOES I-M satellites are the primary element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and are a key component of NOAA's National Weather Service operations and modernization program. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Feb 19, 1994 |
GALAXY 1R-2 GALAXY 1R-2 was the replacement satellite for GALAXY - 1R, which failed to make it into orbit. |
| ASO | Atlas IIAS | CCAFS | Dec 15, 1993 |
TELSTAR 401 TELSTAR 401 was a communications satellite owned by AT&T, which was launched in 1993 to replace Telstar 301. It was destroyed by a magnetic storm in 1997. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Dec 7, 1993 |
NATO - IV B NATO - IV B provides secure communications for government establishments. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Sep 3, 1993 |
UHF F/O - F2 UHF F/O - F2 supports the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals. |
| ASO | STS-57 (Endeavour) | CCAFS | Jul 1, 1993 |
EURECA (post-retrieval) EURECA was a European scientific and technology mission, launched by the US Space Transportation System. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Mar 25, 1993 |
UHF F/O - F1 UHF F/O - F1 supports the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Oct 12, 1992 |
KOPERNIKUS DFS-3 DFS 3 joined two previously launched satellites, DFS 1 and DFS 2, in geostationary orbit to complete the DFS Kopernikus system, providing radio, television and data communications services throughout Germany. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 31, 1992 |
SATCOM - C4 General Dynamics C4 System provides state-of-the-art high-speed encryption products optimized to meet size, weight, and power requirements. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Aug 22, 1992 |
GALAXY - 1R GALAXY - 1R was the replacement satellite for GALAXY - 1, which was exclusively devoted to cable television. |
| ASO | STS-46 (Atlantis) | CCAFS | Jul 31, 1992 |
EURECA EURECA is a European scientific and technology mission, launched by the US Space Transportation System. |
| ASO | Atlas IIA | CCAFS | Jun 9, 1992 |
INTELSAT - K INTELSAT - K is a single spacecraft purchased to meet critical requirements for Ku-band capacity over the Atlantic region, driven primarily by international broadcasters. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | May 13, 1992 |
PALAPA - B4 Palapa-B is the second generation of communications satellites designed and built for Indonesia by Hughes Space and Communications Company. |
| ASO | STS-49 (Endeavour) | CCAFS | May 7, 1992 |
INTELSAT VI - F3 (PKM) INTELSAT VI -F3 is a communication satellite for the International Telecommunication Satellite organization. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Mar 13, 1992 |
GALAXY - 5 GALAXY - 5 was used for general communications services, such as television relay, voice and data. |
| ASO | Atlas II | CCAFS | Dec 7, 1991 |
EUTELSAT - 2 F3 The satellite was launched into a highly supersynchronous transfer orbit, which required an additional perigee orbit maneuver. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jul 3, 1991 |
LOSAT-X The prupose of LOSAT-X was to gather multi-spectral data on ground-launched rocket plumes and the space environment. It also was used for development and testing of other technologies (wide field-of-view star camera). |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | May 29, 1991 |
AURORA II AURORA II provided telephone, television, maritime, radio and emergency communications service for the northern state's long distance carrier, Alascom, as well as radio and data services for GE Americom. |
| ASO | Atlas I | CCAFS | Apr 18, 1991 |
BS - 3H BS - 3H was a part of the BS broadcasting satellite program. However, it was lost during a launch failure. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Apr 12,1991 |
ASC-2 ASC-2 was a commercial communications satellite serving the US and Puerto Rico. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Mar 8, 1991 |
INMARSAT 2 - F2 INMARSAT 2 - F2 will provide leased capacity and back up support to Inmarsat I-3 F4. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jan 7, 1991 | NATO - IV A NATO - IV A NATO - IV A provides secure communications for government establishments. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Oct 30, 1990 |
INMARSAT 2 - F1 INMARSAT 2-F1 is located over the Pacific, providing lease capacity. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 17, 1990 |
BSB-R2 BSB-R2 is a UK TV broadcasting satellite known as Marco Polo 2. It joined a sister craft to provide high-power direct broadcast signals to UK users. |
| ASO | Titan III | CCAFS | Jun 23, 1990 |
INTELSAT VI - F4 INTELSAT VI - F4 was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Jun 12, 1990 |
INSAT - 1D (R) INSAT - 1D (R) is a multifunctional satellite that provides telephone, television, and weather observation services for India. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Apr 13, 1990 |
PALAPA - B2R After being recovered in 1984 by the space shuttle crew and brought back to Earth, PALAPA - B2 was renamed B2R and was successfully relaunched. |
| ASO | Titan III | CCAFS | Mar 14, 1990 |
INTELSAT VI - F3 INTELSAT VI - F3 is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Following the launch failure, Intelsat commissioned NASA to launch a replacement perigee motor to raise the satellite's orbit. The satellite arrived in geostationary orbit on 21 May 1992. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Feb 14, 1990 |
LOSAT (LACE/RME) LACE (Low-Power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment) and RME (Relay Mirror Experiment) were two elements of an SDI effort to validate the technology needed to perform pointing, tracking, and laser beam relay functions for a ballistic missile defense system. |
| ASO | STS-32 (Columbia) | CCAFS | Jan 9, 1990 |
SYNCOM IV-F5 (Leasat 5) SYNCOM IV-F1 to F5 were the first satellites to be designed for launch from the Space Shuttle payload bay. |
| ASO | Titan III | CCAFS | Dec 31, 1989 |
JCSAT - 2 / SKYNET - 4A Skynet 4 was the third generation of UK Ministry of Defense communications satellites. JCSAT - 2 relayed signals for voice, television, facsimile and high-speed data services for business use throughout Japan. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Aug 27, 1989 |
BSB-R1 British Satellite Broadcasting-R1 (BSB-R1) was a British television direct broadcasting satellite also known as Marcopolo 1. |
| ASO | Delta II | CCAFS | Mar 20, 1987 |
PALAPA-B2P PALAPA-B2P was the third PALAPA-B satellite ordered and successfully launched on a Delta II rocket in 1987. |
| ASO | STS-61C (Columbia) | CCAFS | Jan 12, 1986 |
SATCOM-KU1 SATCOM-KU1 was a commercial communications satellites built by RCA and deployed by the STS 61-C shuttle mission. |
| ASO | STS-61B (Atlantis) | CCAFS | Nov 26, 1985 |
AUSSAT-2 / MORELOS-B / SATCOM-KU2 Three communications satellites were deployed during the STS-61B shuttle mission: MORELOS-B (Mexico), AUSSAT-2 (Australia) and SATCOM-KU2 (RCA Americom). |
| ASO | STS-51I (Discovery) | CCAFS | Aug 27, 1985 |
ASC-1 / AUSSAT-1 ASC-1 and AUSSAT-1 were two communications satellites deployed by the crew of STS-51I. |
| ASO | STS-51G (Discovery) | CCAFS | Jun 17, 1985 |
ARABSAT-A (PAM-D) / MORELOS A / TELSTAR-3D Three communications satellites were deployed by STS-51G: MORELOS-A, for Mexico; ARABSAT-A, for Arab Satellite Communications Organization; and TELSTAR-3D, for AT&T. |
| ASO | STS-51D (Discovery) | CCAFS | Apr 12, 1985 |
TELESAT-1 (PAM-D) TELESAT-1 was a communications satellite deployed by STS-51D. PAM-D motor is the payload assist module, which was processed at Astrotech Space Operations in Florida. |
