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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]
The satellite entered orbit, but lost contact with the ground within hours. [1] [non-primary source needed] In late January 2008, reports from anonymous U.S. officials indicated a U.S. spy satellite, later confirmed as USA-193, [1] was in a deteriorating orbit and was expected to crash into Earth within weeks.
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 ...
An investigation is under way, but there is no initial indication of sabotage or other interference.
COSMOS 2576 resembled previously deployed counterspace payloads from 2019 and 2022, the statement added, referring to past Russian tactics of deploying satellites close to sensitive U.S. spy ...
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.
“We see that it’s in a similar orbit to one of our high-value assets for the U.S. government.”
KH-9 (BYEMAN codename HEXAGON), commonly known as Big Bird or KeyHole-9, [1] was a series of photographic reconnaissance satellites launched by the United States between 1971 and 1986. Of twenty launch attempts by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), all but one were successful. [ 2 ]