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NRO celebrates 60th anniversary year with NROL-111 launch

60 Years – Above and Beyond This year, the National Reconnaissance Office celebrates its 60th anniversary. NROL-111 will be NRO’s second and final launch in 2021. From its inception in 1961, NRO has used its incredible intelligence collection capabilities to meet the nation’s challenges. The agency’s story is one where opportunity, necessity, and determination converged during the Cold War to form a unique intelligence agency. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower approved reconnaissance systems that included high-altitude balloons, airplanes, and satellites to collect intelligence on the Soviet Union, and other threats to the United States. The successful Air Force and CIA imagery reconnaissance programs of the late 1950s and early 1960s led to what is now the National Reconnaissance Office. This new program brought dispersed United States satellite system programs under one--highly classified—agency for the first time on September 6, 1961. For the next 30 years, NRO operated without being openly acknowledged or displayed until the U.S. government declassified the fact that NRO existed in 1992. For nearly six decades, the NRO has pushed the envelope of U.S. space-based intelligence collection with courage and ingenuity. Their innovative legacy continues to thrive as they develop, acquire, launch, and operate the world’s most capable spy satellites to protect Americans and our allies worldwide.