Editing Communication Moon Relay (section)

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[[Image:Moon Relay.jpg|right|thumb|Sailors on board the {{USS|Hancock|CV-19}} spelling out "Moon Relay." This picture was transmitted via Moon bounce as part of the official Navy inauguration of the system.]]The '''Communication Moon Relay''' project (also known as simply '''Moon Relay''', or, alternatively, '''Operation Moon Bounce''') was a [[telecommunication]] project carried out by the [[United States Navy]]. Its objective was to develop a secure and reliable method of [[wireless]] communication by using the [[Moon]] as a natural [[communications satellite]]&nbsp;— a technique known as [[Earth–Moon–Earth communication]] (EME). Most of the project's work took place during the 1950s at the [[United States Naval Research Laboratory]]. Operation Moon Relay was spun off from a classified [[military espionage]] program known as Passive Moon Relay (PAMOR), which sought to eavesdrop on Soviet military radar signals reflected from the Moon.