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'''Molniya''' (Russian for ''lightning'') may refer to: ** [[Molniya orbit]] ...

...escription|Code name for class of satellites operated by the United States Air Force}} ...operated by the [[National Reconnaissance Office]] for the [[United States Air Force]] in the 1970s and 1980s. The program is classified, and much of the ...

...ed dangerous due to the potential for a crashes between the rocket and the launch vehicle. ...pointing fully vertically, however it will turn to do so, and accelerates to pass behind the carrier aircraft. ...

| image_caption = Cos-B, a satellite to [[Gamma-ray astronomy|study cosmic gamma-rays]] | launch_site = [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]], [[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2|SLC-2W]] ...

| operator = [[United States Air Force Academy|USAF Academy]] | mission_duration = Failed to orbit ...

| image = Saturn SA10 launch.jpg | image_caption = Launch of SA-10 carrying AS-105 ...

...eral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17A]] | orbit_reference = [[Geocentric orbit|Geocentric]] ...

{{Short description|U.S. Air Force military satellite}} ...= [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 8|SLC-8]] ...

|image = Launch of Jupiter C with Explorer 1.jpg [[Explorer 1]] was the first American satellite to reach orbit on 31 January 1958. ...

...ir Force Station|Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 36|LC-36B]] | orbit_reference = [[geocentric orbit|Geocentric]] ...

{{About|space launch vehicle|''Russian SA-N-12 "Grizzly" Naval Air Defense Missile''|9K37M1-2 Buk-M1-2|other uses|Shtil' (disambiguation)}} |function = [[Small-lift launch vehicle]] ...

{{Short description|Structures which use pressurized air}} ...yed from the early days of the space program with satellites such as Echo, to impact attenuation system that enabled the successful landing of the Pathfi ...

...Air Force Station|Cape Kennedy]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 37|LC-37B]] | orbit_reference = [[geocentric orbit|Geocentric]] ...

| image = Saturn SA8 launch.jpg | image_caption = Launch of Saturn AS-104 ...

...crewed orbital launch should only be listed if it precedes the next crewed launch. {{Portal:Spaceflight/Next launch ...

...ry at 2.44- (at 450 km) to 1.63-meter (at 300 km) resolution, as orbit altitude is lowered during the end of mission life. ...suffered launch failure). Thus QuickBird II satellite is usually referred to simply as QuickBird, and by the name QuickBird is usually meant the satelli ...

{{Short description|Kind of planetary orbit}} ...the rotational period of the body which contains the [[barycenter]] of the orbit. ...

| image = Launch of the Thor SLV-2 Agena B with Alouette 2.png | image_caption = Launch of the Thor SLV-2 Agena B rocket with Alouette 2 satellite. ...

|function = Manned Re-usable orbital [[launch vehicle]] |location = [[Low Earth orbit|LEO]] ...

...lta II]] rocket from the [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]] on 23 February 1999 to become the first launched South African satellite. Sunsat was built by post ...unsat/news/20010201.html#en|title = The End of SUNSAT's Functional Life in Orbit|date=1 February 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050414090039 ...