Office of the Chief of Ordnance: Government / agency (United States), launches, rockets and satellites

Industry / Companies / United States Army / Office of the Chief of Ordnance

0Orbital launches

1,576All launches (incl. suborbital)

0Satellites in orbit

0Satellites built

0Rockets / spacecraft

Office of the Chief of Ordnance is a government organisation based in the United States, founded in 1832. Our records show 1,576 launches.

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

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Structure

Divisions, sites and subsidiaries

US Army Ordnance Dept. HQ, White Sands Proving Ground 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit US Army Ordnance, Redstone Arsenal Ordnance Missile Lab 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit

Recent launches

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Site	Result
3 Apr 1963	NH intercept	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Success
3 Apr 1963	1963-A222	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Success
Mar 1963	1963-A29	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
Feb 1963	1963-A17	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
Jan 1963	1963-A03	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
10 Sep 1962	Space point intercept	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Success
Sep 1962	1962-A152	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
16 Aug 1962	1962-A120	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
Aug 1962	1962-A122	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
Aug 1962	1962-A121	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
28 Jun 1962	1962-A89	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown
12 May 1962	1962-A64	Nike Hercules	White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico	Unknown

In the news

Recent headlines

A Tapestry of Tales: 10th Anniversary Reflections from NASA’s OCO-2 Mission NASA · 12 Aug 2025

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Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 1 source: GCAT (J. McDowell)
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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.