Merton E. Davies
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Merton E. Davies was a pioneer of America's space program, first in Earth reconnaissance and later in planetary exploration and mapping. He graduated from Stanford University in 1938 and worked for th
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Merton E. Davies presents the cartographic coordinate systems of the Galilean moons of Jupiter in 1980.
The National Reconnaissance Office is an agency of the United States Department of Defense and a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community which designs, builds, launches, and operates the intelligenc
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…the Antarctic Service Medal by the U.S. Navy. On August 18, 2000, Davies was acknowledged as one of the ten Founders of National Reconnaissance by the National Reconnaissance Office for his leadership in advocating the use of satellites for national reconnaissance and inventing the Spin-Pan (torque compensating) camera concept. The…
NRO headquarters at night
Close-up of Atlas 501 payload fairing with NROL-41 satellite (poster commemorating 50 years of NRO)
Serum and Vaccine Institute in Al-A'amiriya, Iraq, as imaged by a US reconnaissance satellite in November 2002
NRO Organizational Chart (Sep. 2010)