NRO GeoLITE

NRO GeoLITE 16 x 20 USAF Permanent Collection, 45th Operations Group HQ, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Spy Satellite, 40th Anniversary of the National Reconnaissance Organization

 Delta 2

The GeoLITE satellite has a laser communications experiment and an operational UHF communications mission on board. GeoLITE was built by TRW of Redondo Beach, Calif. This was the first time an NRO satellite was launched aboard a Delta II rocket. Launched on the 40th anniversary of the National Reconnaissance Organization, in May of 2001.