USA-165 or XSS-11[2] (Experimental Satellite System-11) is a small, washing-machine-sized, low-cost spacecraft developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory 's Space Vehicles Directorate to test technology for proximity operations. In particular, the satellite was designed to demonstrate "autonomous rendezvous and proximity maneuvers."

Jan 19, 2023 · Some arms control advocates say the $80 million XSS-11 satellite — launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an Orbital Sciences Corp.-supplied Minotaur rocket — is intended to...

Jan 14, 2023 · XSS-11's objective is to demonstrate key elements of extended proximity operations using microsatellites. An agile, capable, affordable microsatellite will rendezvous with a resident space object and perform extended proximity operations including standoff inspection and circumnavigation.

Jan 29, 2003 · XSS-11 (Experimental Spacecraft System-11) The XSS-11 technology demonstration mission is within the category of early OOS (On-Orbit Servicing) missions. The objectives of the XSS-11 mission are to demonstrate key elements of extended proximity operations using microsatellites/minisatellites.

Jun 28, 2016 · Micro satellites, such as the XSS-11, offer affordable platforms to demonstrate key capabilities including rendezvous and proximity operations, autonomous mission planning, as well as other enabling space technologies.

ESTO Technology to Fly on Air Force XSS-11. May 13, 2004 – A new, radiation-tolerant design of a Low-Power Transceiver (LPT) has been selected to fly on the US Air Force’s Experimental Satellite System XSS-11. The XSS-11 satellite is set to launch in November of 2004 and will, among other activities, ‘mission qualify’ the LPT system. The

The Air Force's Experimental Satellite System-11, or XSS-11 for short, is a vision of the future, pointing toward a time when satellites flying on orbit will be refueled, resupplied, repaired, repositioned or removed from space.

Apr 11, 2005 · XSS-11 (eXperimental Satellite System 11) is an American military (AFRL) microsatellite that was launched by a Minotaur rocket, a modified Minuteman 2 ICBM, from Vandenberg AFB at 13:35 UT on 11 April 2005.

Dec 31, 2007 · NASA’s decision to use a version of the XSS-11 satellite for its 2011 Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar gravitational mapping mission is, or at least could be, at step towards turning the military’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) effort into something more than just a few experiments and some yet-to-be-firmed-up ...

Sep 12, 2005 · Orbiting Earth for six months, the U.S. Air Force XSS-11 (Experimental Satellite System-11) has achieved an early objective—to rendezvous with other space hardware.