{"id":199621,"date":"2007-07-11T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/11\/some-insites-into-a-secret-us-radar-spy-satellite\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T10:45:00","slug":"some-insites-into-a-secret-us-radar-spy-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/11\/some-insites-into-a-secret-us-radar-spy-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Insites Into a Secret US Radar Spy Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard talk about it for a while, but this is the most I&#8217;ve seen in terms of public hard facts.<\/p>\n<p>Of interest is how the name describes the vehicle.   The antenna does resemble the business end of a Lacrosse stick.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2007-07-09&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2007\/07\/09\/AW_07_09_2007_p28-01.xml&amp;headline=Russian+Telescope+Images+Top-Secret+NRO+Lacrosse\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2007-07-09&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2007\/07\/09\/AW_07_09_2007_p28-01.xml&amp;headline=Russian+Telescope+Images+Top-Secret+NRO+Lacrosse\">Russian Telescope Images Top-Secret NRO Lacrosse<\/a><\/span> (Subscription Required)<br \/>Aviation Week &#038; Space Technology<br \/>07\/09\/2007, page 28<\/p>\n<p>Craig Covault<br \/>Cape Canaveral<\/p>\n<p>Top-secret U.S. space-based radar imaged by Russian telescope<\/p>\n<p>Printed headline: Lacrosse Revealed<\/p>\n<p>After 20 years of secrecy, the overall design of the 15-ton U.S. National Reconnaissance Office Lacrosse space-based radar and its remarkable 25-ft.-dia. imaging radar antenna are revealed in images of Lacrosse-2 at 400 mi. altitude taken by a Russian military ground-based telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The images (above) were taken by a 28-channel adaptive optical system at the Russian Altay Laser\/Optical Center. The site is one of several operated by the Science Research Institute for Precision Instrument Engineering. The line-of-sight distance from the Russian optics to the Lockheed Martin Lacrosse was more than 500 mi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img45.imageshack.us\/img45\/9012\/aw07092007252loi7.jpg\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Views taken by a Russian ground-based telescope of a 15-ton NRO Lacrosse space-based imaging radar satellite reveal its secret 25-ft. mesh synthetic aperture radar antenna, developed by Harris Corp. near Cape Canaveral.Credit: RUSSIAN SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PRECISION INSTRUMENT ENGINEERING<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img182.imageshack.us\/img182\/7827\/aw07092007253lqh6.jpg\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">No unclassified imagery of a complete Lacrosse has ever been released by the NRO in nearly 20 years of radar satellite operations. The design matches the drawing at center. Credit: CHARLES P. VICK\/GLOBALSECURITY.ORG<\/span><br \/>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard talk about it for a while, but this is the most I&#8217;ve seen in terms of public hard facts. Of interest is how the name describes the vehicle. The antenna does resemble the business end of a Lacrosse stick. Russian Telescope Images Top-Secret NRO Lacrosse (Subscription Required)Aviation Week &#038; Space Technology07\/09\/2007, page 28 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}