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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government.
Four payloads. First NRO launch on a Minotaur IV and first from Virginia's Space Coast. [136] L-146: USA-354 - USA-374 22 May 2024 08:00 [137] VSFB, SLC-4E: Falcon 9 Block 5: 425 × 310 km × 69.7° LEO: Entered service, presumed active NRO's Proliferated Architecture Mission of 21 Starshield satellites. [138] L-149: USA-441 - USA-462 17 ...
15 January 1960 - 6594th Test Wing (Satellite) activated at Sunnyvale, California; will later be known as Air Force Satellite Control Facility, or the Blue Cube, controlling many NRO CORONA satellite missions; 22 June 1960 - Launch of GRAB Signals Intelligence satellite; first overhead intelligence gathering satellite [1] [2]
The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO) of the United States is responsible to the Secretary of Defense (through the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence) and the Director of National Intelligence for all national space and assigned airborne reconnaissance activities. The DNRO provides top-level management direction to ...
The recovery of the Discoverer 14 return capsule (typical for the CORONA series) A KH-4B CORONA satellite Discoverer 14 launch 1960, Thor Agena "A" launch vehicle. The CORONA [1] program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force.
The Android Package with the file extension apk [1] is the file format used by the Android operating system, and a number of other Android-based operating systems for distribution and installation of mobile apps, mobile games and middleware. A file using this format can be built from source code written in either Java or Kotlin.
Military reconnaissance aircraft of the 1960s by country; International • Austria • Canada • Czechoslovakia • China • France • Germany • Italy • Japan • Poland • Romania • Soviet Union • United Kingdom • United States
MOD files use the “.MOD” file extension, except on the Amiga which doesn't rely on filename extensions; instead, it reads a file's header to determine filetype. A MOD file contains a set of instruments in the form of samples , a number of patterns indicating how and when the samples are to be played, and a list of what patterns to play in ...