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From Space.com:
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More light has been shed on a once secret Cold War spysat program.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has released images of the POPPY system, a series of satellites built to scout out land based radar emitters in the former Soviet Union, as well as collect radar emanations from Soviet naval vessels.

This type of surveillance from space is dubbed electronic intelligence, or ELINT for short.

Last month, on September 12, the NRO formerly announced that the POPPY satellite system had been declassified.

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