Forty-five years ago, a top-secret U.S. spy satellite code-named CORONA snapped a series of grainy, black-and-white photographs of selected missile sites in the Soviet Union. It was a difficult, high-risk mission that brought back the world's first pictures from space. Since that day, the nature of warfare has fundamentally altered. Meeting our military objectives increasingly hinges on what is called „information dominance”, with space playing a crucial role. The greatest source of information is intelligence that comes from space assets in the form of photographs, signals, communication intercepts, and other valued pieces of information. Satellite reconnaissance, America’s „eyes in the sky”, has become an integral part of its military doctrine.
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