Pinning the tail on the Moskva: POPPY and the dawn of satellite ocean surveillance

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review at 06 Apr, 11:59 UTC

The NRO launched signals intelligence satellites in the 1960s initially to track radars fixed on the ground. Dwayne Day describes insights from a recently declassified interview on how those satellites were then applied to tracking ships.

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• T2Pinning the tail on the Moskva: POPPY and the dawn of satellite ocean surveillanceSpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review06 Apr, 11:59