USA 295, 296 & 297

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Mission details:

• Sometime between 2017 and 2019 the US DoD covertly deployed three small satellites from the orbiting X-37 spaceplane. Those satellites have finally been added to the US satellite catalog as USA 295-297 (SSN 45169-45171) although with no orbital data provided. A page on Space-Track.org noted that the three satellites are no longer in orbit; this adds weight that they were deployed close to the beginning of the OTV-5 mission in 2017. (JR775 - Feb 2020)

External links:

• Satellite tracking (n2ya.com): Real time satellite tracking