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The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
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HN rank: 2
HN score: 150
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original url: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1
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The incredible and futuristic technologies the US managed to deploy decades before the competition reminds me of the story of how the NRO gifted NASA a couple of their old decommissioned satellites in 2012 and they turned out to be basically upgraded Hubble telescopes pointed at earth. The US from the 90s to the 2000s had multiple Hubble-level telescopes just for spying while NASA was fighting for scraps to study the entire cosmos. reply: Way longer than that. The first KH-11 satellites that Hubble shares its design with were in orbit in the late 1970s.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
I’m not going to be alive in 40 years, but I would like to have known what classified information will be released in 2066 dealing with satellites in orbit now? reply: Apply for an intelligence job in the USAclearancejobs.com
Relevance of this information:https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16172545/us-sp...
Related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914880 - "A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit"
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
Small error. In the 1960s TALENT and KEYHOLE were different things. TALENT was data from the U2 programs, KEYHOLE was satellites. The "TALENT-KEYHOLE" name today is a generalized classification ("TK") but in the 60s they were distinct programs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform...
I am more concerned about Facebook's Spyglasses. That one is quite pertinent.