The CORONA program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate...

satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications. The first generation type (i.e., Corona and Zenit) took photographs...

Sun or Moon Corona (planetary geology) CORONA (rocket), a Russian prototype CORONA (satellite), a 1959–1972 US satellite series CORONAS programme, a...

can still be found on satellite maps and ground inspection. See links to maps below. Following the launch of Corona satellites in the 1960s, the US National...

the Corona Satellite Calibration Targets built in the 1960s in the desolate desert, in and around Casa Grande that helped to calibrate satellites of the...

successors. Corona - Corona was among the first of a series of reconnaissance satellite systems developed through the WS-117L program. The Corona program...

program a number of sub-programs were developed including Corona. Satellites within the Corona program carried different code names. The first launches...

surveillance satellite programs like CORONA. Satellites largely replaced aircraft overflights for surveillance after 1960. A weather satellite is a type...

Discoverer 14, also known as Corona 9009,: 236  was a spy satellite used in the Corona program managed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of...

from 1961 to 1976. It was responsible for developing film from the Corona satellite program and other film projects that were top secret. The facility...

reconnaissance satellite (see Corona) that has photographed every missile base in the US. The film had been ejected from the satellite so that Soviet...

reconnaissance satellites produced by the United States from February 1961 to August 1964. The KH-5 operated similarly to the CORONA series of satellites, as it...

Corona is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It borders Flushing and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the east, Jackson Heights...

the 272 concrete Corona Satellite Calibration Targets, which were used to calibrate cameras on the satellites in the Corona Satellite Program that lasted...

lake fed by the meltwater of the Lhonak glacier. It was first seen in CORONA satellite images from 1962 as a supraglacial lake. Landsat MSS images show that...

helicopters as its recovery aircraft. The early-1960s era Corona reconnaissance satellite returned delicate film capsules to Earth that required mid-air...

ready before the Six-Day War. In 2021, it was reported that based on satellite imagery, the complex was undergoing a major expansion. The new construction...

envisaged as a small, 400 kg (880 lb) satellite in a Low Earth Orbit (800 km) with a coronagraph to study the solar corona. An experimental budget of ₹3 crore...

Program 206) was a reconnaissance satellite used by the United States from July 1963 to June 1967. Like the older CORONA system, it acquired imagery intelligence...

construction projects in Europe. The airfield was documented by American CORONA satellite reconnaissance in 1968. The role of the facility was to establish,...

and Agena lead to the development of the Corona (satellite)—the nation's first photo reconnaissance satellite system, collecting both intelligence and...

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...

such as Corona.[citation needed] The resolution of satellite images varies depending on the instrument used and the altitude of the satellite's orbit....

Discoverer 1 was the first of a series of satellites which were part of the CORONA reconnaissance satellite program. It was launched on a Thor-Agena A...

A corona (pl.: coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere. It is a hot but relatively dim region of plasma populated by intermittent...

the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corona satellites, a 1959-1962 classified U.S. military satellite program publicly labeled the Discoverer non-military...

Discoverer 6, also known as Corona 9003,: 236  was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 19 August 1959 at 19:24:44 GMT, the third...

warheads; 10 bombs. 1976 – 10–20 nuclear weapons. 1979 – Vela incident, satellite detects possible advanced miniaturized and very clean nuclear test in...

were described using a modal analysis. The analysis of CORONA satellite images, as well as satellite and aerial photos of the 1970s and 1980s, revealed more...

reconnaissance satellites. The search for operational ballistic missile sites continued focusing on the Soviet railway system using Corona satellite images,...