US Declassifies Vintage Spy Satellite With a Wildly Lopsided Orbit

The U.S. government revealed details of a secret satellite program it used to spy on the Soviet Union at the height of ...

US government declassifies Cold War-era 'JUMPSEAT' spy satellites

The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satellites, eight of which ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

US declassifies secret 1970s spy satellites that tracked Soviet threats for decades

The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has just declassified a pioneering spy satellite program ...
The Aviationist

First In-orbit Photo Taken By Secretive Boeing X-37B Spacecraft Officially Released

The photo, taken during the X-37B’s seventh mission, shows Earth from High-Elliptical Orbit. On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS website, what is ...
Task & Purpose

US military releases first photo from orbit from its mysterious space plane

There aren’t a ton of specifics about what the military’s X-37B has been up to in space, but we now know one thing for certain: The view is pretty good. On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Space Force released ...