Editing Misty (satellite program) (section)

{{Short description|Classified project of the United States National Reconnaissance Office}}
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'''Misty''' is reportedly the name of a [[Classified information|classified]] project by the United States [[National Reconnaissance Office]] (NRO) to operate [[Stealth technology|stealthy]] [[reconnaissance satellite]]s. The satellites are conjectured to be [[photo reconnaissance]] satellites<ref>{{cite news |title=Transcript: Jim Popkin, Author "Code Name Blue Wren" |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2023/01/05/transcript-jim-popkin-author-code-name-blue-wren/ |access-date=15 January 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> and the program has been the subject of atypically public debates about its worthiness in the defense budget since December 2004. The estimated project costs in 2004 were, at the time of statement, US$9.5 billion (inflation adjusted US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|9.5|2004|r=1}}}} billion in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref name="wired14.02" />