USA-207

USA-207,[4] international COSPAR code 2009-047A,[5] also known as PAN, officially meaning Palladium at Night,[6] NEMESIS I,[7] or P360[8] is a classified American SIGINT satellite,[7] which was launched in September 2009.The US government has not confirmed which of its intelligence agencies operate the satellite,[9] but leaked documents from the Snowden files point to the NSA.[10] The spacecraft was constructed by Lockheed Martin, and is based on the A2100 satellite bus,[6] using commercial off-the-shelf components.[8] The contract to build PAN was awarded in October 2006, with the satellite initially scheduled to launch 30 months later, in March 2009.[13] PAN has shown an unusual history of frequent relocations during the first 5 years of its operations, moving between at least 9 different orbital slots since launch.
The geostationary satellite PAN (2009-047A), along with two other (commercial) geostationary satellites photographed on 4 July 2011 (photo: Marco Langbroek, Leiden, the Netherlands)
SIGINTCOSPAR IDSATCAT no.Lockheed MartinAtlas VCape CanaveralSLC-41GeocentricGeostationaryPerigee altitudeApogee altitudeInclinationPeriodclassifiedsatellite buscommercial off-the-shelfUnited Launch AllianceSpace Launch Complex 41Cape Canaveral Air Force Station← 2008Orbital launches in 20092010 →USA-202Orion 6Sohla-1Koronas-FotonNOAA-19Progress M-66Ekspress-AM44Ekspress-MD1Hot Bird 10Spirale-ASpirale-BTelstar 11NKeplerSTS-119ITS S6USA-203Soyuz TMA-14USA-204Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2RISAT-2ANUSATSICRAL 1BUSA-205Progress M-02MSTS-125HerschelPlanckProtoStar 2TacSat-3PharmaSatAeroCube-3HawkSat-1Meridian 2Soyuz TMA-15LCROSSMEASAT-3aGOES 14Sirius FM-5TerreStar-1Kosmos 2451Kosmos 2452RazakSATSTS-127JEM-EFProgress M-67DubaiSat-1Deimos-1UK-DMC 2Nanosat-1BAprizeSat-3AprizeSat-4AsiaSat 5USA-206JCSAT-RAOptus D3STSat-2ASTS-128Leonardo MPLMPalapa-DMeteor-M No.1Sterkh-2SumbandilaSatUGATUSATUniversitetsky-Tatyana-2Nimiq 5Oceansat-2Rubin 9.1Rubin 9.2BeeSat-1ITU-pSat1SwissCube-1USA-208STSS-Demo 1USA-209STSS-Demo 2Soyuz TMA-16WorldView-2Progress M-03MThor 6PROBA-2Progress M-MIM2Shijian 11-01STS-129ExPRESS-1ExPRESS-2Intelsat 14Eutelsat W7Intelsat 15USA-211Kosmos 2456Kosmos 2457Kosmos 2458Helios IIBSoyuz TMA-17DirecTV-12