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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.
KH-4B Corona satellite U.S. Lacrosse radar spy satellite under construction A model of a German SAR-Lupe reconnaissance satellite inside a Cosmos-3M rocket. Microwave interception ( Rhyolite ) A reconnaissance satellite or intelligence satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite ) is an Earth observation satellite ...
An investigation is under way, but there is no initial indication of sabotage or other interference.
Discoverer 14, also known as Corona 9009, [1]: 236 was a spy satellite used in the Corona program managed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force. On 19 August 1960, usable photographic film images of the Soviet Union taken by the satellite were recovered by a C-119 recovery aircraft.
spy satellite, has been spotted USA-339: 2022-11-01 2022-144B Technology demonstration Falcon Heavy: Shepherd Demonstration Entered service, presumed active Launched with LDPE-2, LINUSS-A1/A2, TETRA-1 and Alpine as part of the USSF-44 mission. USA-340: 2022-11-01 2022-144E Technology demonstration Falcon Heavy: Entered service, presumed active
A number of articles published by the amateur satellite tracking community stated that if the satellite was still in orbit or operating covertly, then it would likely be located visually. [31] [32] [33] In the process of searching for Zuma, amateur astronomers instead found radio transmissions from IMAGE, a NASA satellite that was lost in 2005 ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -One of the stages of North Korea's satellite launch rocket exploded after separation on Tuesday, video captured by an South Korean astronomy observatory showed, in what some ...