Silentbarker

Atlas V of NROL-107 mission

Silentbarker is a class of classified United States spy satellites for space domain awareness developed by US Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Satellites

Name	Launch date	Launcher	COSPAR ID	Status	Notes
Silentbarker 1, USA-346	10 September 2023	Atlas V	2023-140A		NROL-107
Silentbarker 2, USA-347	10 September 2023	Atlas V	2023-140B		NROL-107
Silentbarker 3, USA-348	10 September 2023	Atlas V	2023-140C		NROL-107

See also

References

^ "Silentbarker". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
^ Stephen Clark (29 August 2023). "US spy satellite agency isn't so silent about new "Silent Barker" mission". Ars Technica.
^ Stephen Clark (11 September 2023). "ULA's Atlas V rocket has launched for the first time in nearly a year". Ars Technica.

United States reconnaissance satellites

Photographic	KH-1 Corona KH-2 Corona KH-3 Corona KH-4A Corona KH-4B Corona KH-5 Argon KH-6 Lanyard KH-7 Gambit KH-8 Gambit 3 KH-9 Hexagon KH-10 Dorian
Electro-optical	Samos KH-11 Kennen Misty Enhanced Imaging System
Synthetic-aperture radar	Quill Lacrosse FIA

Low Earth orbit	GRAB Poppy White Cloud Samos-F
Highly elliptical orbit	Jumpseat Trumpet
Geosynchronous Earth orbit	Canyon Magnum Mentor (Orion) Mercury Rhyolite/Aquacade Vortex GSSAP

Primary mission	FORTE GPS DMSP Vela
Secondary mission	MIDAS DSP SBIRS STSS

R&D

Primary mission	MiTEx

Unknown

USA number	USA-193

v t e USAF and USSF space vehicle designations (since 1962)
SLV series	SLV-1 (Scout) SLV-2 (Thor) SLV-3 (Atlas) SLV-4 (Titan II) SLV-5 (Titan)
SB series	SB-1 SB-2 SB-3 SB-4 SB-5 SB-6 SSB-7 SSB-8 SSB-9 SSB-10 ASB-11
Satellites	WS-1 WS-2 LS-3 ES-4 ES-5 LS-6 NS-7 ES-8 LS-9 LS-10 (I) XSS-10 (II) XSS-11² XSS-12 S-13¹ ES-14 LS-15³ LS-16³ ES-17 EWS-G1 EWS-G2
¹ Not assigned ² Unofficial designation ³ Designation believed to be this type but unconfirmed

v t e ← 2022 Orbital launches in 2023 2024 →
January	ION SCV-007 & 008 (Astrocast × 4), Orbiter SN1† (Unicorn-2G†, Unicorn-2H†), Vigoride-5, ICEYE × 3, Lynk Tower 03, Lynk Tower 04, ÑuSat × 4, Flock 4y × 36, KSF3 × 4, Gama Alpha, Lemur-2 × 6, Milspace-2 1, MilSpace-2 2, Platform 2, SpaceBEE × 12, Shijian 23 AMAN†, CIRCE 1†, CIRCE 2†, ForgeStar-0†, Prometheus 2A†, Prometheus 2B†, STORK-6† OneWeb L16 (40 satellites) Apstar 6E Yaogan 37, Shiyan 22A, Shiyan 22B Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D 34, Jilin-1 Hongwai-01A × 2, Jilin-1 Mofang-02A × 3 LDPE-3A, USA-342 / CBAS-2 USA-343 / GPS III-06 Starlink G2-4 (51 satellites) Hawk × 3 IGS-Radar 7 Starlink G5-2 (56 satellites) Starlink G2-6 (49 satellites), ION SCV-009
February	Starlink G5-3 (53 satellites) Elektro-L №4 Amazonas Nexus Progress MS-22 Starlink G5-4 (55 satellites) Starlink G2-5 (51 satellites) Inmarsat-6 F2 ChinaSat 26 Soyuz MS-23 Starlink G6-1 (21 satellites)
March	SpaceX Crew-6 Starlink G2-7 (51 satellites) Nahid-1† ALOS-3† OneWeb L17 (40 satellites) Olymp-K №2 / Luch-5X SpaceX CRS-27 Shiyan 19 Capella 9, Capella 10 Gaofen 13-02 Starlink G2-8 (52 satellites) SES-18, SES-19 Kosmos 2567 / Bars-M 4L BlackSky 18, BlackSky 19 Starlink G5-5 (56 satellites) OneWeb L18 (36 satellites) Ofeq-13 Kosmos 2568 / EO MKA №4 Starlink G5-10 (56 satellites) PIESAT-1A 01, PIESAT-1B × 3 Yaogan 34-04
April	SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0 × 8, SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 0 × 2 Intelsat 40e / TEMPO JUICE ION SCV-010 (Kepler-20, Kepler-21), Vigoride-6, Hawk × 3, İMECE, ÑuSat × 4, Brokkr-1, DEWA SAT-2, LacunaSat-2F, Lemur-2 × 3, Sateliot_0 / Platform 3, TAIFA-1 Fengyun 3G Starlink G6-2 (21 satellites) Starlink G3-5 (46 satellites) O3b mPOWER 3, O3b mPOWER 4
May	ViaSat-3.1 Starlink G5-6 (56 satellites) TROPICS 05, TROPICS 06 Tianzhou 6 Starlink G2-9 (51 satellites) BeiDou-3 G4 Starlink G6-3 (22 satellites) Iridium 9 (5 satellites), OneWeb L19 (15 satellites), JoeySat Axiom Mission 2 Progress MS-23 TROPICS 03, TROPICS 07 Kondor-FKA №1 Arabsat 7B (BADR-8) NVS-01 Shenzhou 16 Malligyong-1† Starlink G2-10 (52 satellites)
June	Starlink G6-4 (22 satellites) SpaceX CRS-28 (Maya-5, Maya-6) Shiyan 24A, Shiyan 24B Starlink G5-11 (52 satellites) ION SCV-011 (Unicorn-2I), Orbiter SN3, Blackjack Aces × 4, ICEYE × 4, ÑuSat × 4, GEISAT, Lemur-2 × 3, MISR-A, MISR-B, SpaceBEE × 12, Tiger-4, XVI Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D × 8, Jilin-1 Gaofen-06A × 30, Jilin-1 Pingtai-02A × 2 SATRIA Shiyan 25 Starlink G5-7 (47 satellites) USA-345 / Orion 11 Starlink G5-12 (56 satellites) Meteor-M №2-3
July	Euclid Syracuse 4B Starlink G5-13 (48 satellites) Starlink G6-5 (22 satellites) Chandrayaan-3 (Vikram, Pragyan) Starlink G5-15 (54 satellites) Lemur-2 × 2 Starlink G6-15 (15 satellites) Starlink G6-6 (22 satellites) Yaogan 36-05 (3 satellites) Starlink G6-7 (22 satellites) Jupiter-3 / EchoStar-24
August	Cygnus NG-19 Fengyun 3F Galaxy-37 Starlink G6-8 (22 satellites) Kosmos 2569 / GLONASS-K2 13L Starlink G6-20 (15 satellites) S-SAR 02 / Huanjing-2F Luna 25 Starlink G6-9 (22 satellites) Starlink G6-10 (22 satellites) Gaofen 12-04 Starlink G7-1 (21 satellites) Progress MS-24 Malligyong-1 F2† Acadia 1 Jilin-1 Kuanfu-02A SpaceX Crew-7 Starlink G6-11 (22 satellites) Yaogan 39-01 (3 satellites)
September	Starlink G6-13 (22 satellites) Aditya-L1 SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0 × 11, SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 0 × 2 Starlink G6-12 (21 satellites) Yaogan 33-03 XRISM, SLIM (LEV-1, LEV-2) Starlink G6-14 (22 satellites) Yaogan 40 (3 satellites) USA-346 / Silentbarker 1, USA-347 / Silentbarker 2, USA-348 / Silentbarker 3 Starlink G7-2 (21 satellites) Soyuz MS-24 Starlink G6-16 (22 satellites) Yaogan 39-02 (3 satellites) Acadia 2† Starlink G6-17 (22 satellites) Jilin-1 Gaofen-04B† Starlink G6-18 (22 satellites) Starlink G7-3 (21 satellites) Yaogan 33-04 Starlink G6-19 (22 satellites)
October	Yaogan 39-03 (3 satellites) Starlink G6-21 (22 satellites) KuiperSat-1, KuiperSat-2 THEOS-2, MACSAT Starlink G7-4 (21 satellites) Psyche Starlink G6-22 (22 satellites) Starlink G6-23 (22 satellites) Starlink G7-5 (21 satellites) Starlink G6-24 (23 satellites) Yaogan 39-04 (3 satellites) Shenzhou 17 Kosmos 2570 / Lotos-S1 №7 (Kosmos 2571) Starlink G7-6 (22 satellites) Starlink G6-25 (23 satellites)
November	TJS-10 Starlink G6-26 (23 satellites) Starlink G6-27 (23 satellites) ChinaSat 6E SpaceX CRS-29 ION SCV-015 (Lemur-2 NANAZ, OSW Cazorla, Unicorn-2J, Unicorn-2K), Aether-1, Aether-2, FalconSAT-X, ICEYE × 4, Pelican-1, B1B2 Barry, Flock-4q × 36, Lemur-2 × 10, PEARL-1C, PEARL-1H, Platform 5, STORK-7 / Aman-1 O3b mPOWER 5, O3b mPOWER 6 Haiyang-3A Starlink G6-28 (23 satellites) Starlink G7-7 (22 satellites) Malligyong-1 F3 Starlink G6-29 (23 satellites) Kosmos 2572 / Razdan 1 Starlink G6-30 (23 satellites)
December	Progress MS-25 ION SCV-012 (Unicorn × 3), EIRSAT-1, Hayasat-1 Starlink G6-31 (23 satellites) Starlink G6-33 (23 satellites) Starlink G7-8 (22 satellites) Yaogan 39-05 (3 satellites) Reusable Experimental Spacecraft Yaogan 41 Starlink G6-34 (23 satellites) Kosmos 2573 / Bars-M 5L Starlink G6-32 (23 satellites) SARah-2, SARah-3 Shiyan 24C-01, Shiyan 24C-02, Shiyan 24C-03 BeiDou-3 M25, BeiDou-3 M26 Kosmos 2574 / Razbeg No.1 USA-349 / X-37B OTV-7 Starlink G6-36 (23 satellites)
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).