Subject: USA Intelligence payloads (Re: Pike on NBC) From: gkrebs@ikfpool4.rz.uni-frankfurt.de () Date: 1996/03/01 Message-Id: <4h6sg6$ips@grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: sci.space.policy,alt.politics.org.cia,alt.politics.org.nro,biz.corp.LockMart John Pike (johnpike@fas.org) wrote: > KELLY@lthmtv1.mtov.lth.se(kelly wright) wrote: > >How many payloads of this type are currently orbiting and what is > >their expected life ? To complete the list I have compiled the most probable members of the different types. This identification is based on analysis of published orbital data (from non official sources) and rumoured purposes of the payloads except the DSP satellites, which are aknowledged by official sources. > # type lifetime [approximate] > 3 Keyhole ~5 years USA 53 28. 2.90 Shuttle USA 86 28.11.92 Titan-404 USA 116 5.12.95 Titan-404 > 2 Lacrosse ~5 years USA 34 2.12.88 Shuttle USA 69 8. 3.91 Titan-403 > 3* SBWASS ~5 years USA 59-62 8. 6.90 Titan-405 USA 72,74,76,77 8.11.91 Titan-403 ------- 2. 8.93 Titan-403 failed to orbit > 2 Trumpet ~5 years [?] USA 103 3. 5.94 Titan-401 Centaur USA 112 10. 7.95 Titan-401 Centaur > 3 Magnum-2 ~6-7 years USA 8 24. 1.85 Shuttle (+ IUS ?) USA 48 23.11.89 Shuttle (+ IUS ?) USA 67 16.11.90 Shuttle (+ IUS ?) > 3 Vortex-2 ~6-7 years USA 37 10. 5.89 Titan-34D Transtage (old Vortex type) USA 105 27. 8.94 Titan-401 Centaur USA 110 14. 5.95 Titan-401 Centaur the new series (USA 105, 110) possibly replaces old Vortex and Magnum satellites > 5 DSP ~6-7 years USA 28 (DSP13) 29.11.87 Titan-34D Transtage USA 39 (DSP14) 14. 6.89 Titan-402 IUS USA 65 (DSP15) 13.11.90 Titan-402 IUS USA 75 (DSP16) 21.11.91 Shuttle (+ IUS) USA 107 (DSP17) 22.12.94 Titan-402 IUS > 2 SDS-2 ~5 years USA 40 8. 8.89 Shuttle (+ kick motor) USA 89 2.12.92 Shuttle (+ kick motor) > * SBWASS = 3 clusters of 3 satellites each Each cluster containes 4 satellites (possibly one is a dispencer unit for the three other) Gunter Krebs gk@smoky.ikf.physik.uni-frankfurt.de
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