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1.1
1950-1959
1.2
1960-1969
1.3
1970-1979
1.4
1980-1989
1.5
1990-1999
1.6
2000-2009
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References
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Chronology of the National Reconnaissance Office
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Events
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1950-1959
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28 February 1959 -
Discoverer 1
I/
CORONA
is launched; mission is a failure due to problems with
Agena
upper stage
1960-1969
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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
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[
2
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11 August 1960 -
Discoverer XIII
capsule successfully recovered; first man-made object retrieved from orbit (American flag)
[
3
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18 August 1960 -
Discoverer XIV
/
CORONA M9009
launched; first totally successful mission; returned images of
Mys Schmidta
airfield
17 February 1961 - First launch of
KH-5 ARGON
camera system (M9014A); mission was partially successful
6 September 1961 -
National Reconnaissance Office
is established
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4
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13 December 1962 - First launch of
POPPY
SIGINT
satellite
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1
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21 August 1964 - Last launch of
KH-5 ARGON
system (M9066A); mission was successful
1970-1979
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25 May 1972 -
CORONA
M1117 launched; final mission of
CORONA
program
12 October 1973 - Existence of
NRO
is inadvertently leaked through the
Congressional Record
, an official government publication
[
5
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15 August 1978 -
William P. Kampiles
, CIA staffer, arrested after selling
KH-11 Technical Manual
to the Soviets
[
6
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1 October 1978 - President
Jimmy Carter
publicly acknowledges the "fact of" United States' photoreconnaissance satellites
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1980-1989
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28 January 1986 -
STS-51L
Challenger
explodes; delays pending launches of NRO satellites
1990-1999
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18 September 1992 -
National Reconnaissance Office
declassified
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2000-2009
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23 August 2001 -
Brian Patrick Regan
, a contractor at NRO, was arrested by FBI, under suspicion of espionage
[
10
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23 April 2007 - Operating Division-4 (OD-4) inactivates at
Onizuka AFS
,
California
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11
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References
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^
a
b
National Reconnaissance Office: "Raising the Periscope... Grab and Poppy, America's early ELINT Satellites"
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"History of the POPPY satellite system"
^
"National Air and Space Museum: Looking at Earth exhibit"
. Archived from
the original
on 2010-04-08
. Retrieved
2009-09-21
.
^
National Security Archive: Roswell Gilpatric, Letter to Allen Dulles, "Management of the National Reconnaissance Program", 6 September 1961
^
Zianet.com: Memorandum for Director Central Intelligence, "BYEMAN security compromises", 30 Oct 1973
[
permanent dead link
]
^
CI CENTRE:"William Kampiles espionage case"
Archived
2009-03-29 at the
Wayback Machine
^
National Security Archive: Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Admission of Satellite Reconnaissance", 25 Sep 1978
^
National Security Archive: Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Public Acknowledgement of the 'fact of' photoreconnaissance satellites", 21 Sep 1978
^
FAS.org:"Department of Defense, No. 264-M, MEMORANDUM FOR CORRESPONDENTS", September 18, 1992
^
CI CENTRE: "Brian Regan espionage case"
Archived
2009-03-07 at the
Wayback Machine
^
Air Force Link: "'Mission accomplished' for NRO at Onizuka AFS", 23 Apr 2007
Archived
2011-07-20 at the
Wayback Machine
External links
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NRO official website
History of the US high-altitude SIGINT system
History of the US reconnaissance system: imagery
v
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e
National Reconnaissance Office
Current programs
Sentient (intelligence analysis system)
(2009-unknown)
SpaceX Starshield
(2022-present)
Silentbarker
(2023-)
Blackjack
(2024-)
Future Ground Architecture
Facilities & commands
Headquarters, Chantilly, VA
National Reconnaissance Operations Center
(NROC)
RAF Menwith Hill
Pine Gap
Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range
222d Command and Control Squadron
Aerospace Data Facilities
Colorado, Buckley Space Force Base
East, Virginia, Fort Belvoir
Southwest, New Mexico, White Sands Missile Range
Technology & Science
Byeman Control System
Dijkstra's algorithm
Phased array radar
Synthetic-aperture radar
Tip and cue
Satellite lines & projects
Key Hole
(1959-unknown)
Discoverer 1
(1959)
Corona
(1959-1972)
Samos
(1960-1962)
KH-5 Argon
(1961-1964)
Upward
(1961-1972)
Poppy
(1962-1967)
Samos-F
(1962-1971)
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
(1962-2014)
Lanyard
(1963)
Zirconic
(1963-)
Gambit
(1963-1967)
Quill
(1964)
Gambit 3
(1966-1984)
Canyon
(1968-1977)
Aquacade
(1970-1978)
Jumpseat
(1971-1983)
Hexagon
(1971-1986)
KENNEN
(1976-unknown)
Satellite Data System
(1976-2017)
Naval Ocean Surveillance System
(1976-2025)
Vortex
(1978-1989)
Magnum
(1985-1989)
Lacrosse
(1988-2005)
Prowler
(1990)
Misty
(1990-2012)
Trumpet
(1994-1997)
Mercury
(1994-1998)
SLDCOM
(1994-unknown)
Orion
(1995-)
FORTE
(1997)
Discoverer II
(1998-2000)
STEX
(1998)
Enhanced Imaging System
(1999)
Future Imagery Architecture
(1999-2018)
Zuma
(2018)
People
Christopher Scolese
(Director)
Betty J. Sapp
Brian Patrick Regan
William Kampiles
Leadership of the National Reconnaissance Office
History
Chronology of the National Reconnaissance Office
List of NRO launches
USA-193
USA-225
USA-234
USA-276
2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA
Multiple Mirror Telescope
6594th Test Group
Past programs
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
NEMESIS (High Altitude)
RAVEN (High Altitude)
SIGINT High Altitude Replenishment Program (SHARP)
Founders
William O. Baker
Merton E. Davies
Sidney Drell
Richard L. Garwin
Amrom Harry Katz
James R. Killian
Edwin H. Land
Frank W. Lehan
William J. Perry
Edward M. Purcell
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