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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 ...
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 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 ...
Discoverer 17 was the second of the KH-2 Corona spy satellites, which was distinguished from the predecessor KH-1 series in its incorporation of the improved C' camera, which replaced the C model carried on KH-1 missions. The improved camera had variable image motion compensation so that its carrying satellites could be flown in differing orbits.
Discoverer 18, also known as Corona 9013, was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 7 December 1960 at 20:24:00 GMT. [1] It was the first successful, and the third of ten total Corona KH-2 satellites, based on the Agena-B .
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 ...
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 ...
This is a display model of a GRAB satellite at the National Cryptologic Museum. Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful United States orbital surveillance program, comprising a series of five Naval Research Laboratory electronic surveillance and solar astronomy satellites, launched from 1960 to 1962. Though only two of ...