A reconnaissance satellite or intelligence satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite) is an Earth observation satellite...

communications. The first military satellites were photographic reconnaissance missions. Some attempts were made to develop satellite based weapons but this work...

builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government. It provides satellite intelligence to several government...

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

series of terrestrial radar imaging reconnaissance satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). While not officially...

intelligence specialists, using navy ships and submarines, reconnaissance aircraft, satellites to collect raw intelligence; and establishing observation...

1010: 82  and Key Hole: 82 ) is a type of reconnaissance satellite first launched by the American National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in December 1976. Manufactured...

Environmental Satellite GPS Inmarsat InSight Juno Lucy Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...

it apparently authorised another satellite program – "Object OD-1" – which was to be used for photo-reconnaissance from space. By 1958, the OKB-1 design...

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to operate stealthy reconnaissance satellites. The satellites are conjectured to be photo reconnaissance satellites and...

Additional military uses are reconnaissance, early warning, signals intelligence and, potentially, weapon delivery. Other satellites include the final rocket...

and satellite reconnaissance has been coordinated by the National Reconnaissance Office.[citation needed] Early photographic reconnaissance satellites used...

202, a classified reconnaissance satellite, lifted off 18 January 2009. NROL-32 was a Delta IV Heavy launch, carrying a satellite for NRO. The payload...

commercial satellite (GeoEye 1) has a GSD of 0.41 m. This compares to a 0.3 m resolution obtained by some early military film based reconnaissance satellites such...

first orbital launch attempt, from Sohae Satellite Launching Station, carrying the military reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1 (meaning Telescope-1). However...

Soviet satellite targeting system mated to the SS-N-19 missile. It consisted of the US-P SIGINT satellites and the US-A Radar Ocean reconnaissance satellites...

satellite during a Chinese anti-satellite missile test. The 2008 destruction of the USA-193 military reconnaissance satellite in a decaying orbit by a USA...

of United States spy satellites that collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) from space. Operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and developed...

KH-5 ARGON was a series of reconnaissance satellites produced by the United States from February 1961 to August 1964. The KH-5 operated similarly to the...

Russian reconnaissance satellites, derived from the Resurs DK class of remote sensing satellite, in turn derived from the Soviet Yantar reconnaissance satellites...

(Misidentified as Satellite and Missile Observation System) or SAMOS-E program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United...

meaning Telescope-1) is a type of North Korean reconnaissance satellite. It is North Korea's first spy satellite. It is in a sun-synchronous orbit at about...

Station AMOS communications satellite EROS earth observation satellite Ofeq reconnaissance satellite TecSAR reconnaissance satellite Shavit space launch vehicle...

the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988. Most Ofeq satellites have been carried on top of Shavit launch...

Soviet submarine K-129 KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellite Lockheed CL-400 Suntan high-altitude, high-speed reconnaissance prototype Lockheed Have Blue stealth...

Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard...

photographic reconnaissance satellites launched by the United States between 1971 and 1986. Of twenty launch attempts by the National Reconnaissance Office...

Blackjack is a constellation of small American surveillance satellites to be launched starting in 2024. The Blackjack program was started by DARPA in 2017...

States Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) share the satellite-based ISR task as of 2021...

Misty 2 and KH-13, is an American reconnaissance satellite program. A derivative of the Improved Crystal satellites, EIS replaced Misty, and was intended...