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The National Reconnaissance Office logo This is a list of NRO Launch ( NROL ) designations for satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office . Those missions are generally classified, so that their exact purposes and orbital elements are not published.
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
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.
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 ...
Launched into a polar orbit [3] by a Thor-Agena A booster on 18 August 1960 at 19:55:00 GMT from Vandenberg LC 75-3-4 by a Thor DM-21 Agena-A rocket, [7] Discoverer 14 was incorrectly positioned at first and on the verge of tumbling during its first few orbits. Halfway through the scheduled flight period, the satellite stabilized, allowing ...
The U.S. Space Force and a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture sent a secret reconnaissance payload to orbit on Tuesday atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the last flight of a workhorse launch vehicle brand ...
A KH-6 LANYARD main features Thor SLV-2A Agena D (Thor 360) with KH-6 8001 on 18 March 1963 Thor-SLV2A Agena-D (Thor 364) with KH-6 2 on 18 May 1963. BYEMAN codenamed LANYARD, the KH-6 was the unsuccessful first attempt to develop and deploy a very high-resolution optical reconnaissance satellite by the United States National Reconnaissance Office. [1]
NRO intended to replace HEXAGON with ZEUS, later DAMON—HEXAGON's camera flown on the Space Shuttle—but DAMON was canceled in December 1980. [10] [14] In December 1976 NRO launched the first KH-11 KENNEN. While its electro-optical digital imaging had a smaller field of view than HEXAGON, by not needing film KENNEN was usable for years. [10]