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Printable version; In other projects ... The National Reconnaissance Office ... The NRO was established on August 25, 1960, ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Discoverer 20, also known as KH-5 9014A, was a USAF photographic reconnaissance satellite under the supervision of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) which was launched in 1961. Discoverer 20 was the first KH-5 ARGON satellite to be launched.
Discoverer 13 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 10 Aug 1960 at 20:37:54 GMT. The last of five test flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series, it was the first fully successful flight in the Discoverer series.
There followed eight operational Discoverer satellites, all of them partial or complete failures, [1]: 236 though Discoverer 11, launched 15 April 1960, carried a new vacuum-resistant film and was the first mission on which the onboard camera worked properly. Discoverer 11 failed on reentry, caused by the explosion of its spin motor.
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.