Loads of new declassified documents:http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.html
Quote from: Skyrocket on 11/30/2017 06:08 amLoads of new declassified documents:http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.htmlNext release alluded to here should be interesting as then we wade into the far more unknown waters of the seventies. Especially if they will release anything on Magnum.
Quote from: Star One on 11/30/2017 06:45 amQuote from: Skyrocket on 11/30/2017 06:08 amLoads of new declassified documents:http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.htmlNext release alluded to here should be interesting as then we wade into the far more unknown waters of the seventies. Especially if they will release anything on Magnum.I am becoming somewhat skeptical, if the MAGNUM/ORION geo SIGINT satellites were ever really named MAGNUM, as the recent declassified documents show a Subsatellite Ferret mission called MAGNUM. I had until now never found a hint on reuse of a codename.
Quote from: Star One on 11/30/2017 06:45 amQuote from: Skyrocket on 11/30/2017 06:08 amLoads of new declassified documents:http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.htmlNext release alluded to here should be interesting as then we wade into the far more unknown waters of the seventies. Especially if they will release anything on Magnum.There are many before that will have to be declassified, like RHYOLITE, CANYON, etc
This document is apparently missing:235 Payload Vehicle
Star One: also note that even for the POPPY series quite a number of facts are still classified. E.g., the final launch of the POPPY series (POPPY IX) was in December 1971, and the expected lifetime of this mission according to the "NSA in space" doc from 1975 is still "exempted from automatic declassification at 25 years" in the 2017 release (reason 3.3(b)(1) is provided, i.e. releasing the expected lifetime would "reveal information about the application of an intelligence source or method;").
I don't know: is here the right place for this ?http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/agena.html
Quote from: Alter Sachse on 12/01/2017 05:08 pmI don't know: is here the right place for this ?http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/agena.htmlAs above...National Reconnaissance Office 6 hrs ·While NRO has previously released records on the Agena flight control vehicle, this latest release includes almost all of the contents of the program -- demonstrating the significant role the Agena had in furthering the United States' work in developing and operating national reconnaissance satellites.
New members in the POPPY-family !POPPY 1 29.06.1961POPPY 2 24.01.1962
Quote from: Alter Sachse on 12/03/2017 02:22 pmNew members in the POPPY-family !POPPY 1 29.06.1961POPPY 2 24.01.1962It says "Poppy II (2 Ball)". Does this mean that there was a second Poppy payload? The Lofti?
Early in the morning of May 9, 1972, four A-6 Intruders and six A-7 Corsairs launched off the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea steaming in the Pacific far off the coast of North Vietnam. The aircraft headed west and dove down low, keeping under five hundred feet. Underneath the planes’ wings were naval mines, barrel-shaped devices that when dropped in the water would sink to the bottom and once activated could detonate upon detecting a passing ship. But the Coral Sea only had enough nosecones for about half the large Mk-52 magnetic mines carried by the Intruders, thus the mines created a lot of drag and slowed the aircraft down, making them vulnerable.
Mr Day’s latest article.And the sky full of stars: American signals intelligence satellites and the Vietnam Warhttp://www.thespacereview.com/article/3430/1
...and the sky was full of stars, and every star was an exploding ship — one of ours.--Jeffrey Sinclair