national reconnaissance office

  1. Michel Van

    Keyhole satellite projects

    This here is overview of several projects for NRO Keyhole Spy Sats like DORIAN, SPARTAN, SAMOS or FULCRUM MOL aka KH-10 DORIAN KH-11 KENNEN The SPARTAN reconnaissance satellite program Proposal to use NRO camera on Apollo Mission Source material...
    • Michel Van
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    • central intelligence agency cia cold war corona fulcrum mol nasa national reconnaissance office nro photo-recce photographic reconnaissance samos spy sat united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  2. Flyaway

    Buccaneers of the high frontier: Program 989 SIGINT satellites from the ABM hunt to the Falklands War to the space shuttle

    https://thespacereview.com/article/4479/1
    • Flyaway
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    • cold war elint falklands conflict great britain national reconnaissance office royal air force sigint signals intelligence united states united states air force
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  3. U

    TU-160 Blackjack satelite image

    Good morning folks. I seem to remember back in the early 80's (1984 according to some research) there was a few satelite images released from a House Appropriations Committee of the MIG-29 and SU-27 on a runway during their respective developments (if I remember rightly) I also seem to remember...
    • unkownusername666
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    • central intelligence agency cold war heavy bomber long range aviation national reconnaissance office nuclear battlefield soviet air forces soviet union strategic bomber united states ussr
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. Flyaway

    Applied witchcraft: American communications intelligence satellites during the 1960s

    Another cracking article from Mr Day. https://thespacereview.com/article/4051/1
    • Flyaway
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    • 1960s cold war comint satellites elint imperial japanese navy leo satellite low earth orbit national reconnaissance office sigint signals intelligence soviet union strategic reconnaissance united states world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  5. Flyaway

    Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission

    http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3748/1 Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission by Dwayne A. Day Monday, July 1, 2019 The first military/intelligence payload ever scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle was a top-secret...
    • Flyaway
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    • cold war early 1980s late 1970s nasa national reconnaissance office space age space race space shuttle space transportation system spy sat strategic reconnaissance united states air force
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  6. Flyaway

    Black Ops And The Shuttle

    http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1 Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle by Dwayne A. Day Monday, December 11, 2017
    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s cold war national reconnaissance office space age space race space shuttle space transportation system space weapons spy sat strategic defense initiative strategic reconnaissance united states air force
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  7. Flyaway

    Public Release of SIGINT Phase II Records

    More on link below including the declassified documents themselves. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.html
    • Flyaway
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    • central intelligence agency cold war electronic warfare lockheed national reconnaissance office national security agency photographic reconnaissance post-world war ii rand corporation signals intelligence space age space race spy sat strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance united states united states air force
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  8. Flyaway

    Black ZEUS: The top secret shuttle mission that never flew

    Rest on the link. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3160/1
    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s cold war late 1970s nasa national reconnaissance office space age space race space shuttle space transportation system spy sat strategic reconnaissance united states air force
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  9. G

    RIP Simon Ramo 1913-2016

    http://www.dailybreeze.com/obituaries/20160628/simon-ramo-1913-2016-aerospace-pioneer-and-icbm-chief-architect-was-the-r-in-trw
    • GeorgeA
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    • 20th century aerospace industry apollo program bunker ramo corporation cold war defense industry early 21st century icbm nasa national reconnaissance office post-cold war satellite space probes space race spy sat strategic defense initiative thompson ramo wooldridge trw united states united states air force
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  10. Flyaway

    KH-11 KENNEN

    New article from AW, including an image captioned 'This accurate model show the original KH-11 design that, like Hubble, carried about a 8-ft. mirror but with a shorter instrument base section.' Just looks like an image of Hubble to me & it would be a first for an image of it to be reproduced of...
    • Flyaway
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    • central intelligence agency cold war national reconnaissance office photo-recce photographic reconnaissance post-cold war space race spy sat strategic reconnaissance united states united states air force
    • Replies: 104
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  11. S

    Lockheed C-5C Space Cargo Transportation System (SCTS)

    Of mild interest to those of us in the UK is that Space Cargo modified C-5C 80216 arrived at Mildenhall yesterday. The aircraft (along with 80213) has been subject to a degree of interest over the years in connection with various projects, alleged Boscombe Down debris retrieval etc and rarely...
    • Spongthrush
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    • cold war lockheed nasa national reconnaissance office post-cold war space container transportation system space race space shuttle space transportation system united states united states air force
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  12. flateric

    Project ISINGLASS & Project RHEINBERRY

    Anyone anything about this stuff? More than this: Isinglass: Mach 17, rocket powered, air-launched reconnaissance aircraft? part of RS-129 (Staged combustion hydrogen-oxygen rocket component development program)? wide usage of lightweight structures (diffusion bonded titanium honeycomb) "CIA...
    • flateric
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    • central intelligence agency cold war national reconnaissance office strategic air command united states air force usaf
    • Replies: 347
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  13. SOC

    "SENIOR" Class programs (USAF Headquarters/Pentagon NRO codenames)

    SENIOR PROM: http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/senior-prom.html SENIOR PEG: http://www.dreamlandresort.com/black_projects/senior_peg.html Definitely two of the more unconventional Lockheed designs from the late 70's/early 80's. Both of them are based on design experience from...
    • SOC
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    • cold war department of defense national reconnaissance office post-cold war united states united states air force
    • Replies: 46
    • Forum: Designation Systems
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