File:RORSAT by Ronald C. Wittmann, 1982.jpg
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English: RORSAT by Ronald C. Wittmann, 1982: The Soviet Union placed a series of radar-equipped ocean reconnaissance satellites (RORSATs) in low Earth orbit beginning in 1967. Employing powerful radars and working in pairs, they located and targeted U.S. ships for destruction by Soviet naval forces. Nuclear powered RORSATs launched in the 1970s occasionally malfunctioned, including one that crashed and spread radioactive debris across northern Canada in 1978. |
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Smithsonian Exhibit Defense Intelligence Agency +1(202) 231-8601 |
| Author | Ronald C. Wittmann |
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