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    The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate...
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    satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications. The first generation type (i.e., Corona and Zenit) took photographs...
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  • Look up corona or Corona in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to: Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere...
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    can still be found on satellite maps and ground inspection. See links to maps below. Following the launch of Corona satellites in the 1960s, the US National...
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    successors. Corona - Corona was among the first of a series of reconnaissance satellite systems developed through the WS-117L program. The Corona program...
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    program a number of sub-programs were developed including Corona. Satellites within the Corona program carried different code names. The first launches...
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    the Corona Satellite Calibration Targets built in the 1960s in the desolate desert, in and around Casa Grande that helped to calibrate satellites of the...
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  • Cold War CORONA satellite photographs have been used extensively for base maps and provisional interpretation. In contrast to other imagery, CORONA uses two...
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    Discoverer 14 (category Reconnaissance satellites of the United States)
    Discoverer 14, also known as Corona 9009,: 236  was a spy satellite used in the Corona program managed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of...
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  • reconnaissance satellite (see Corona) that has photographed every missile base in the US. The film had been ejected from the satellite so that Soviet...
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