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Project TRANSIENT Satellite Intercept Program

TRANSIENT did not become a household codeword the way ECHELON did. In the surviving record, it appears as the quieter sibling inside the 1966 FROSTING umbrella: the part aimed at Soviet satellite targets. That makes it important not because the public record is rich, but because it reveals how quickly NSA adapted to the Soviet communications-satellite era.