A number of gamma‐ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected by means of gamma‐ray detectors aboard three Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, in polar orbits at 800 km altitude. The gamma‐ray data have a 2 s resolving time, and are usually telemetered in 5 energy bins in the range 50–1000 keV. Although it is not possible to detect GRBs when the DMSP satellites are passing through the radiation belt or the South Atlantic Anomaly, or when the source is obscured by the Earth, a number of GRBs have been detected by two or even three of the satellites. THE DMSP data may be of considerable assistance in evaluating time histories, locations, and spectra of GRBs.