Project Orbiter was an early proposal for an American artificial satellite. Jointly run by the Army and Navy, it was cancelled in 1955, but satellites had been considered by the U.S. Navy since the end of World War Two. So, WI more work had been done with as was with captured V rockets and other early missiles, and satellite development had proceeded apace? Could we have seen something like Orbiter or Vanguard by the end of the Korean War?