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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 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 ...
The National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) is the "hidden younger brother" [further explanation needed] [citation needed] of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). NRO was initiated in 1960 and developed as a common office for United States Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to manage satellite reconnaissance. The ...
Quill was an experimental United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) program of the 1960s, which provided the first images of Earth from space using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). [1]
1st Director of the National Reconnaissance Office; In office September 6, 1961 [1] – March 1, 1963: President: John F. Kennedy: Succeeded by: Brockway McMillan: 7th United States Under Secretary of the Air Force; In office January 28, 1960 – March 1, 1963: President: Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy: Preceded by: Dudley C. Sharp ...
Discoverer 9, also known as Corona 9006, [1]: 236 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 4 Feb 1960 at 18:51:45 GMT, the sixth of ten operational flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series, and the first of them to be equipped with a new, vacuum-proof, polyester-based film. The satellite was not successfully orbited.
Discoverer 13 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 10 Aug 1960 at 20:37:54 GMT. The last of five test flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series, it was the first fully successful flight in the Discoverer series.
Discoverer 11, also known as Corona 9008, [1]: 236 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 15 Apr 1960 at 20:30:37 GMT. The eighth of ten operational flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series, it successfully employed the first space-worthy camera film; however, Discoverer's film return capsule was lost during reentry on 16 Apr when the satellite's spin motors exploded.