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Archive for June 18, 2017

DMSP

Developed in the 1960's under complete secrecy to ensure U.S. reconnaissance satellites could take cloud-free pictures, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program remains a linchpin weather detection spacecraft managed by the Air Force Space ...

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NAVSPASUR

The Naval Space Surveillance assets were deployed along the southern region of the United States, coast to coast, around 1960 in response to the national security issue created by the Russian launch of Sputnik.  (image courtesy of NRL)

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