Lockheed Martin today congratulated the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance ...

In February 1995, President William Clinton signed an executive order declassifying early satellite imagery. The release of more than 860,000 photos, taken between 1960 and 1972, has helped scientists ...

This collection consists of the following Corona ITEK items: The Corona Camera System: Itek's Contribution to World Stability by Frank J. Madden; photograph of the Corona-ITEK; "The Item," ITEK's ...

Suggested Citation: "Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks." National Academy of Sciences. 2019. Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. In this series of images of what ...

Before digital sensors could beam images from orbit to ground stations in seconds, the United States built a spy satellite program that relied on physical film canisters ejected from space, parachuted ...