USSF-12 Ring (?) [Northrop Grumman]
The USSF-12 Ring testbed is a classified mission to demonstrate future technology for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program.
It is a propulsive ESPA ring using a Northrop Grumman ESPA Star bus, hosting multiple payloads, some of the possibly deployable.
The satellite will be launched together with WFOV-T on the USSF-12 (formerly known as AFSPC-12) mission.
Nation: | USA |
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Type / Application: | Technology |
Operator: | Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) |
Contractors: | Northrop Grumman |
Equipment: | |
Configuration: | Eagle-Bus ESPA (ESPAStar) |
Propulsion: | ? |
Power: | solar arrays, batteries |
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Orbit: | GEO |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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USSF-12 Ring (USA 333) | 2022-073B | 01.07.2022 | CC SLC-41 | Atlas-5(541)˛ | with WFOV-T, USA 337 |