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Back-to-back launch under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) program. [150] RASR-2 [159] [160] USA-301 USA-302 USA-303 13 June 2020 05:12 Mahia, LC-1A: Electron: Entered service, presumed active Three technology demonstration smallsats. Primary customer of the rideshare mission procured under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small ...
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 ...
This category is for satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office, an agency of the United States Government. Pages in category "National Reconnaissance Office satellites" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The NRO, which designs and operates classified U.S. government surveillance and intelligence satellites, is working to rapidly deploy "a new network of satellites designed to track ground targets ...
The United States has developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary agencies: NASA for civil space; the United States Space Force for military space; and the National Reconnaissance Office for intelligence space.
National Reconnaissance Office: Launched as a part of NROL-167 mission. 10 USA 438-440: v2 mini 2024-225 30 November 2024 08:10 Vandenberg, SLC-4E: 310 km (190 mi) 70° 2 [45] 2 [45] Success National Reconnaissance Office: Launched as a part of NROL-126 mission with Starlink Group N-01 mission. 11 USA 441-462: v2 mini 2024-243 17 December 2024 ...
According to an official NRO history, [3] "In the first 20 years of reconnaissance satellite program activity in the United States, Quill was … the only satellite of any nature to proceed from start to finish with a perfect record in launch, orbital operations, readout, and recovery".
The United States' National Reconnaissance Office's Program A was a component of the National Reconnaissance Program (NRP). Program A took the remnants of the Air Force Office of Special Projects (the successor to the ill-fated SAMOS program office, and redesignated it and refocused its efforts onto the next generation of imagery intelligence gathering satellites (i.e. CORONA/Discoverer, KH-7/ ...