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SSC Space US

SSC Space US, Inc., formerly Universal Space Network, Inc., or USN is an American company specializing in tracking, telemetry, and control of spacecraft. It is a subsidiary of Swedish Space Corporation, with four main sites and cooperative agreements with many others. USN has been used by commercial satellite operations such as Sirius XM Radio and scientific missions both in low Earth orbit and in orbit around the Moon. USN has offered a 50% discount for their services for competitors for the Google Lunar X Prize.

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SSC Space US, Inc., formerly Universal Space Network, Inc., or USN1 is an American company specializing in tracking, telemetry, and control of spacecraft. It is a subsidiary of Swedish Space Corporation, with four main sites and cooperative agreements with many others.2 USN has been used by commercial satellite operations such as Sirius XM Radio3 and scientific missions both in low Earth orbit (such as GALEX4) and in orbit around the Moon (such as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter5). USN has offered a 50% discount for their services for competitors for the Google Lunar X Prize.

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  1. "Subsidiaries". SSC - Swedish Space Corporation. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  2. "Near Earth Network (NEN) Users' Guide" (PDF). NASA. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15. Chapter 6, Universal Space Network Stations.
  3. "Universal Space Network to Provide Commercial Telemetry and Tracking for Sirius Satellite Radio". SpaceRef. 2009.
  4. "Universal Space Network Commercial Antenna Network Evaluation (CANE) Overview" (PDF). 2002.
  5. Mazarico, E; Goossens, SJ; Lemoine, FG; Neumann, GA; Torrence, MH; Rowlands, DD; et al. (2013). Improved Orbit Determination of Lunar Orbiters with Lunar Gravity Fields Obtained by the GRAIL Mission (PDF). 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013). Vol. 1719. p. 2414.