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DEFENSE PRIME · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-07-28

U.S. Navy

Active Defense Prime Government HQ: Arlington, Virginia Founded 1775

U.S. Navy — operator of historical early satellite programs (Vanguard, Transit) and current MUOS narrowband satellite communications. Naval Research Laboratory remains an active space-science demonstrator. Many GCAT historical sea-launch sites (USN57B etc.) carry USN as parent.

43.4
ARI Composite
Very High Risk
#46 of 47
Peer Rank
Defense cohort
4
Total Launches
As lead operator
—
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

43.4
ARI composite · Very High Risk
Peer rank#46 of 47
Peer groupDefense
Data coverage55%
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FLEET COMPOSITION

Every vehicle this operator has flown. Linked profiles carry the full reliability + reuse + subsystem record.

Vehicle Class Launches Success rate Reuse
Nots Ev1 — 4 0.0% —

RECENT LAUNCHES

Date Mission Vehicle Orbit Outcome
Aug 28, 1958 Radiation Payload 3 Nots Ev1 — Failure Source ↗
Aug 22, 1958 Diagnostic Payload 3 Nots Ev1 — Failure Source ↗
Aug 12, 1958 Diagnostic Payload 2 Nots Ev1 — Failure Source ↗
Jul 25, 1958 Diagnostic Payload 1 Nots Ev1 — Failure Source ↗

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Jun 14, 2024 Contract Award $30.6M General Services Administration / Federal Acquisition Service, THE KENIFIC GROUP LLC —

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorDefense Prime
Rank within sector#46 of 47
Tracked peers47

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Jul 22, 2026 Ars Technica — Space Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers
Jul 21, 2026 NASASpaceFlight Falcon 9 to launch MRV-1 robotic servicing spacecraft for Northrop Grumman
Jul 21, 2026 Spaceflight Now Live coverage: SpaceX to launch novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission
Jul 21, 2026 Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission
Jul 06, 2026 Spaceflight Now Fire detectors, military tech demos, 3D printers among SpaceX rideshare payloads launching on midnight Falcon 9 flight

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameUnited States Navy
OwnershipGovernment
HeadquartersArlington, Virginia
CountryUS
Founded1775
ParentU.S. Department of Defense
AliasesUSN, usn, U.S. Navy, US Navy, United States Navy, Navy
SubsidiariesNaval Research Laboratory (NRL), Naval Surface Warfare Center
Key programsVanguard / Transit early satellite programs, MUOS narrowband UHF tactical satcom, NRL space science missions, Sea-launched sounding rocket campaigns
Gov customersU.S. Department of Defense
IPO statusN/A — US government agency

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Official U.S. Navy site — confirms branch lineage and NRL subsidiary relationship.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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