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RASR-3. Back-to-back launch under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) program. [150] L-167: USA-421 24 October 2024 17:13 [151] VSFB, SLC-4E: Falcon 9 Block 5: LEO: Entered service, presumed active NRO's Proliferated Architecture Mission of 17 Starshield satellites. [152] L-174 [153] - was May 2024, [154] now thought to be December ...
USA-247, also known as NRO Launch 39 or NROL-39, is an American reconnaissance satellite, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office and launched in December 2013. The USA-247 launch received a relatively high level of press coverage due to the mission's choice of logo, which depicts an octopus sitting astride the globe with the motto "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach". [2]
This category is for satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office, an agency of the United States Government. Pages in category "National Reconnaissance Office satellites" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
TETRA-1 and Alpine are possible matches for this satellite. USA-342: 2023-01-16 Communications: Falcon Heavy: CBAS 2: Launched with LDPE-3A as part of the USSF-67 mission. USA-343: 2023-01-18 Navigation: Falcon 9 Block 5: GPS III-SV06 Active Sixth GPS Block III satellite, named Amelia Earhart: USA-344: 2022-11-01 2022-144J Technology ...
The NRO's first photo reconnaissance satellite program was the Corona program, [19]: 25–28 the existence of which was declassified February 24, 1995, and which existed from August 1960 to May 1972 (although the first test flight occurred on February 28, 1959). The Corona system used (sometimes multiple) film capsules dropped by satellites ...
According to an official NRO history, [3] "In the first 20 years of reconnaissance satellite program activity in the United States, Quill was … the only satellite of any nature to proceed from start to finish with a perfect record in launch, orbital operations, readout, and recovery".
6 September 1961 - National Reconnaissance Office is established [4] 13 December 1962 - First launch of POPPY SIGINT satellite [1] 21 August 1964 - Last launch of KH-5 ARGON system (M9066A); mission was successful
National Reconnaissance Office satellites (24 P) Pages in category "National Reconnaissance Office" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.