Measurement & Signature Intelligence Programs

• VELA
• Nuclear Detection System

• ALEXIS / BLACKBEARD
• ARIES
• CALIOPE
• FORTE
• MTI

• VEGA
• COBRA BRASS

The Departments of Defense and State conducted a review and identified certain satellites and related items that are not critical to national security, do not contain technologies unique to the United States, and are more appropriately subject to the EAR, which allows for the creation of license exceptions for exports to certain destinations and complete controls for exports to others. This report was provided to the Congress in April 2012. Controls contineud to apply to spacecraft Have any of the following electro-optical remote sensing capabilities or characteristics:

• Electro-optical visible and near infrared (VNIR) (i.e., 400nm to 1,000nm) or infrared (i.e., greater than 1,000nm to 30,000nm) with less than 40 spectral bands and having a clear aperture greater than 0.35 meters;
• Electro-optical hyperspectral with 40 spectral bands or more in the VNIR, short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) (i.e., greater than 1,000nm to 2,500nm) or any combination of the aforementioned and having a Ground Sample Distance (GSD) less than 30 meters;
• Electro-optical hyperspectral with 40 spectral bands or more in the mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) (i.e., greater than 2,500nm to 5,500nm) having a narrow spectral bandwidth of difference in wavelength less than or equal to 20nm full width at half maximum (FWHM) or having a wide spectral bandwidth with difference in wavelength greater than 20nm FWHM and a GSD less than 200 meters; or
• Electro-optical hyperspectral with 40 spectral bands or more in the long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) (i.e., greater than 5,500nm to 30,000nm) having a narrow spectral bandwidth of difference in wavelength less than or equal to 50nm FWHM or having a wide spectral bandwidth with difference in wavelength greater than 50nm FWHM and a GSD less than 500 meters;