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Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy non-functioning U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite USA-193. [1] The mission was described by the Missile Defense Agency as a "mission of safeguarding human life against the uncontrolled re-entry of a 5,000-pound satellite containing over 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine propellant". [2]
A few up-to-date reconnaissance satellite images have been declassified on occasion, or leaked, as in the case of KH-11 photographs which were sent to Jane's Defence Weekly in 1984, [3] or US President Donald Trump tweeting a classified image of the aftermath of a failed test of Iran's Safir rocket in 2019.
An out-of-control satellite has fallen to Earth, nearly three decades after it launched. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the risks associated with the two-tonne satellite were “very low ...
Aaj Tak was awarded the Indian Television Academy Award for Best Hindi News Channel for consecutive years from 2001 to 2015, and again from 2017 to 2020. Aaj Tak is ranked 32nd among the 50 most-subscribed YouTube channels according to the List of most-subscribed YouTube channels. In February 2025, Aaj Tak became the first news channel globally ...
“We see that it’s in a similar orbit to one of our high-value assets for the U.S. government.”
In March, the outlet reported that the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) awarded a $1.8bn contract to SpaceX for the classified project, a planned network of hundreds of satellites, in 2021.
Schematic of the Kosmos-954 on-board reactor. Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some of the debris landing in the Great ...
Russia last week launched a satellite that U.S. intelligence officials believe to be a weapon capable of inspecting and attacking other satellites, the U.S. Space Command said Tuesday as the ...