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11Orbital launches
283All launches (incl. suborbital)
24Satellites in orbit
100Satellites built
0Rockets / spacecraft

Naval Research Lab is a government organisation based in the United States, founded in 1923. Our records show 11 orbital launches and 24 satellites in orbit.

Totals include the divisions, sites and subsidiaries listed under Structure below.

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Satellites in orbit

By platform

NRL 14"4
Cubesat 6U3
NRL 14"?3
NRL 9"2
Timation2
MSD-PS2
NRL 6"1
Long Rod1

Recent launches

DateMissionVehicleSiteResult
23 Aug 1977 1977-S315Black Brant IVBUS Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA), Marshall Islands Failure
26 Jan 1977 Astro 8-1 (A8)AriesWhite Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Success
16 Dec 1976 HI-G TestAriesWhite Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Success
28 Dec 1974 Crab OccultationAriesWhite Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Failure
24 Jul 1974 FUV SchmidtSuper Chief IIWallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia Success
30 Jun 1974 NRL P3 ProbeAerobee 150White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Success
18 Jun 1974 1974-S223AriesWhite Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Success
19 Mar 1974 EUV AirglowSuper Chief IIWallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia Success
17 Oct 1973 Dummy payloadAriesSan Nicolas Island, Pacific Missile Range, California Success
1 Nov 1972 NRL NB4.257Aerobee 170White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Success
11 Oct 1972 Auroral IRBlack Brant VAChurchill Research Range, Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada Success
12 May 1972 FUV SchmidtAerobee 170AWhite Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Success
Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 1 source: GCAT (J. McDowell)
Verification status: single source, not yet reviewed by a person. How we build and check this data.

Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.