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Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy, or US-A, also known in the Western world as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite or RORSAT, was a series of 33 Soviet reconnaissance satellites. Launched between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using radar, the satellites were powered by nuclear reactors.

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Controlled Active Satellite; RORSAT; Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite; Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy
reconnaissance satellite
Dong Fang Hong 2reconnaissance satellite


Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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