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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 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.
USA-184 was launched by Boeing, using a Delta IV carrier rocket flying in the Medium+(4,2) configuration. The rocket was the first Delta IV to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, flying from Space Launch Complex 6, [3] a launch pad originally constructed as part of abandoned plans for crewed launches from Vandenberg, originally using Titan rockets, and later Space Shuttles. [4]
Seal of the United States National Reconnaissance Office. Source Converted from EPS version available on an archived version of the NRO home page (direct EPS URL [1] ).
The revision of the treaty in 1960 was a highly contentious process in Japan, and widespread opposition to its passage led to the massive Anpo protests, which were the largest popular protests in Japan's history. [1] The 1960 treaty significantly revised the U.S.-Japan security agreement in the direction of greater mutuality between the two ...