US-A (category Reconnaissance satellites of the Soviet Union)
Спутник Активный for Controlled Active Satellite), or US-A, also known in the west as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite or RORSAT (GRAU index 17F16K), was...
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Space-based radar or spaceborne radar is a radar operating in outer space; orbiting radar is a radar in orbit and Earth orbiting radar is a radar in geocentric...
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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...
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American Nuclear Society. Retrieved 27 August 2012. "RORSAT (Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite)". daviddarling.info. Table of Nuclides. DOE Fundamentals...
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Yellowknife Highway or Highway 3. On January 24, 1978, a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite, named Kosmos 954, built with an onboard nuclear reactor...
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builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government. It provides satellite intelligence to several government...
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Lissajous orbit). Earth observation satellites gather information for reconnaissance, mapping, monitoring the weather, ocean, forest, etc. Space telescopes...
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Radiolocation (redirect from Radiolocation-satellite service)
radiolocation-satellite service "ORS-2" space-based radar "NRO Lacrosse" radar satellite "ROSAR" radar satellite The allocation of radio frequencies is provided...
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Aerial reconnaissance often provides a more accurate assessment of weather conditions than radar or satellite imagery. Weather reconnaissance is also...
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Yaogan (category Synthetic aperture radar satellites)
as optical reconnaissance, synthetic-aperture radar (SAR), and electronic intelligence (ELINT) for maritime surveillance. Yaogan satellites have been launched...
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Surveillance Radar and Attack System (JSTARS) which the Air Force is seeking to divest. Examples of ISR systems include surveillance and reconnaissance systems...
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photography Earth observation satellite Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer Reconnaissance satellite Remote sensing Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Stratellite...
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its successor Royal Signals and Radar Establishment carried out research for the development of the subsequent satellites and ground terminals. The MoD...
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Kosmos 1867 (category Reconnaissance satellites of the Soviet Union)
Kosmos 1867 (Russian: Космос 1867) was a nuclear powered radar ocean reconnaissance satellite (RORSAT) that was launched by the Soviet Union on July 10...
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Union from 1989 to 1990 as part of a program known as the Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite (RORSAT) in the US. Typically, the reactors produced approximately...
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Remote sensing (redirect from Remote sensing satellites)
of satellite- or aircraft-based sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth. It includes the surface and the atmosphere and oceans, based...
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The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters, is a flying unit of the United States Air Force, and "the only...
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the United States Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Hunters...
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USA-193 (redirect from L-21 satellite)
21 (NROL-21 or simply L-21), was a United States military reconnaissance satellite (radar imaging) launched on 14 December 2006. It was the first launch...
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Missile Defense Alarm System (redirect from MIDAS (satellite))
represented one element of the United States's first generation of reconnaissance satellites that also included the Corona and SAMOS series. Though MIDAS failed...
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The Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS) is a series of signals-intelligence satellites that have conducted electronic signals intelligence for the...
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (category 1960s United States military reconnaissance aircraft)
equipment for the plane's aerial reconnaissance role included signals intelligence sensors, side looking airborne radar, and a camera. On average, each...
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1983). "When Incidents are Accidents, The Silent Saga of the Nuclear Navy". Oceans Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2016-09-11...
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government satellite that was launched by SpaceX on 8 January 2018, on the 47th flight of the Falcon 9 rocket. The National Reconnaissance Office was...
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List of nuclear power systems in space (category Derelict satellites orbiting Earth)
Retrieved 25 June 2018. Sven Grahn. "The US-A program (Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites)". svengrahn.pp.se. Retrieved 2020-05-12. "The 2014 NASA...
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BES-5 (category Satellite nuclear reactors)
space debris, Vienna, February 16, 1996 "The US-A program (Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites)". G.M. Gryaznov, V.S. Nikolayev, V.I. Serbin, V.M. Tyugin...
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The Soviet Union used a number of radar-equipped ocean reconnaissance satellites (RORSAT), which used strong radar systems, powered by an onboard nuclear...
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Sentient (intelligence analysis system) (category National Reconnaissance Office satellites)
intelligence satellite intelligence analysis system of the United States Intelligence Community, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)...
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National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the National Ocean Service (NOS), the...
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Reconnaissance Office (NRO) program of the 1960s, which provided the first images of Earth from space using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Radar-imaging...
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