USSF-44
E42997
USSF-44 is a classified U.S. Space Force national security mission launched on a Falcon Heavy rocket to deploy military payloads into geostationary orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USSF-44 canonical | 1 |
| USSF-44 main spacecraft (classified) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T334124 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USSF-44 Context triple: [Falcon Heavy, notableMission, USSF-44]
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A.
CP-140 Aurora
The CP-140 Aurora is a Canadian long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe and used primarily for surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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B.
RGM-109 Tomahawk
The RGM-109 Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile primarily used by the U.S. Navy for precision land-attack missions launched from ships and submarines.
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C.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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D.
CT-156 Harvard II
The CT-156 Harvard II is a turboprop military trainer aircraft used by the Royal Canadian Air Force for pilot training and skill development.
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E.
SAS-4
SAS-4 is the fourth-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard that significantly increases data transfer speeds and bandwidth for enterprise storage systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USSF-44 Target entity description: USSF-44 is a classified U.S. Space Force national security mission launched on a Falcon Heavy rocket to deploy military payloads into geostationary orbit.
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A.
CP-140 Aurora
The CP-140 Aurora is a Canadian long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe and used primarily for surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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B.
RGM-109 Tomahawk
The RGM-109 Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile primarily used by the U.S. Navy for precision land-attack missions launched from ships and submarines.
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C.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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D.
CT-156 Harvard II
The CT-156 Harvard II is a turboprop military trainer aircraft used by the Royal Canadian Air Force for pilot training and skill development.
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E.
SAS-4
SAS-4 is the fourth-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard that significantly increases data transfer speeds and bandwidth for enterprise storage systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Space Force mission
ⓘ
national security space mission ⓘ |
| boosterSideCoreRecovery | successful landing of side boosters ⓘ |
| boosterType |
Falcon Heavy rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy side boosters
|
| classificationStatus | classified ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| customer |
United States Space Force
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Space Force
Department of Defense ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of Defense
|
| launchAzimuth | eastward from Florida toward GEO transfer orbit ⓘ |
| launchContractType | National Security Space Launch (NSSL) ⓘ |
| launchCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2022-11-01 ⓘ |
| launchDateTimeUTC | 2022-11-01T13:41:00Z ⓘ |
| launchLocation |
Florida
ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| launchMassClassification | heavy-lift payload ⓘ |
| launchOutcome | success ⓘ |
| launchProvider | SpaceX ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
ⓘ
LC-39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Falcon Heavy rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy
|
| missionDomain |
military communications (suspected)
ⓘ
space domain awareness (suspected) ⓘ |
| missionSecurityLevel | highly classified ⓘ |
| missionType |
military
ⓘ
national security ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
first operational Falcon Heavy mission for U.S. Space Force
ⓘ
used expendable center core to maximize performance to GEO ⓘ |
| operator | United States Space Force ⓘ |
| orbitType |
GEO
ⓘ
geostationary orbit ⓘ |
| payload |
LDPE-2
ⓘ
LINUSS-1 ⓘ LINUSS-1 ⓘ
surface form:
LINUSS-2
Norwegian NORSAT-2 military communications payload (hosted) ⓘ Shepard Demonstration ⓘ TETRA-1 ⓘ |
| primaryPayload |
USSF-44
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
USSF-44 main spacecraft (classified)
|
| program |
National Security Space Launch (NSSL)
ⓘ
surface form:
National Security Space Launch program
|
| relatedOrganization |
Space Systems Command
ⓘ
U.S. Space Command ⓘ
surface form:
United States Space Command
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| rocketCoreRecovery | no core recovery ⓘ |
| spacecraftDestination | near-geosynchronous orbit ⓘ |
| stagingProfile | multi-burn upper stage to GEO or near-GEO ⓘ |
| usesPropulsion |
Falcon Heavy rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy expendable center core
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: USSF-44 Description of subject: USSF-44 is a classified U.S. Space Force national security mission launched on a Falcon Heavy rocket to deploy military payloads into geostationary orbit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Falcon Heavy
this entity surface form:
USSF-44 main spacecraft (classified)