Jan 11, 2017 · Sometime in the early 2000s Richelson wrote an NRO organization paper that discussed changes in the organization since the early 1990s. He apparently had some more recent org charts in that paper, but I don't have a copy and don't have a citation. Programs A, B and C were eliminated and replaced with Imint, Sigint, and Communications directorates.

Feb 10, 2017 · On another NRO/SAFSP organizational matter.... where is SDS/QUASAR? This office was created as a SAMSO or Space Division "white" unit in 1969 and listed on org charts at various times after that. Around 1983 -- the time of Jacobson's re-org -- it vanished into darkness. But where? Under SP-13, since the relay satellites were part of the KENNEN ...

Jan 29, 2012 · Volume 5-The NRO organization and bureaucracy All of these have been released (I got volumes 2, 2A and 4 declassified under FOIA myself). Some have a lot more deletions than others.

Apr 8, 2023 · Two famous examples being 1988's "Deep Black" and 1990's "America's Secret Eyes in Space". I was curious to see what the oldest books I have which mention it, and I think oldest US-published one in this quasi random sample is Daniel Ford's The Button from 1985, while the oldest I can see at a quick glance is Des Ball's …

Re: NRO organization « Reply #40 on: 07/21/2017 07:36 pm » I worked in the SAFSP offices for GAMBIT and HEXAGON at Sunnyvale from the summer of 1980 to the fall of 1982.

Jul 15, 2014 · The Air Force, NASA, and NRO are working to coordinate and share information to facilitate launch vehicle certification efforts; however, each agency will determine for itself when certification has been achieved. As a result, some duplication and overlap of efforts could occur.

Dec 13, 2024 · The mission, dubbed NROL 146, will be the first launch of six that are planned in 2024 for the NRO’s future proliferated architecture, Troy Meink, the agency’s principal deputy director, said Tuesday during a keynote speech at the annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

May 6, 2017 · Thought this is good as any on a location for this thread. Attached will be scans of my collection of challenge coins from the NRO and other DOD space organizations. If there is enough interest, I also have collections of USAF launch and range units, USAF space control units, NRO launches, USAF launches and NASA spacecraft launches.

Mar 23, 2024 · A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket is launching the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This is the 16th and final launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket. Launch Date: March 28, 2024 Launch Time: 1:40 p.m. ET

Feb 6, 2025 · In other words, throughout the 1960s, the NRO launched a bunch of them to address specific intelligence concerns, to search for X or Y signal, to provide strategic intelligence. By the 1970s, they were becoming more standardized so that each satellite was not unique, and they were gathering signals that were being fed to users a lot faster.