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US spy satellites prevented World War III in the ’70s by taking high-res photos that were “better than Google Earth,” said an engineer who used the cameras.
National Reconnaissance Office graphic depicts the huge HEXAGON spy satellite, a Cold War era surveillance craft that flew reconnaissance missions from 1971 to 1986. NRO Big spy satellites revealed ...
Researchers in Spain looking to develop a fresh approach to finding long-lost aqueducts have turned to U.S. Cold War-era satellite imagery. By mining the black-and-white images from the HEXAGON ...
Each Hexagon satellite launched with 60 miles worth of film and an immensely complicated electromechanical system that controlled the cameras.
1971 The first Hexagon satellite is launched; over the next 20 years, the U.S. builds 19 more, all with Perkin-Elmer optics ...
The HEXAGON satellite spied on America’s Cold War foes for over a decade, taking extremely detailed (film!) photographs from space. It was 60 feet long—bigger than a bus. And the public never ...
Twenty-five years after their top-secret, Cold War-era missions ended, two clandestine American satellite programs were declassified Saturday and unveiled for the first time.
Phil Pressel, who helped design the secret KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite during the Cold War, finally revealed his life's work to his wife after keeping the secret for 46 years.
The National Reconnaissance Office declassified two previously secret spy satellite programs of the Cold War era on Sept. 17. The HEXAGON and GAMBIT spy satellites were displayed publicly ...
The HEXAGON satellite spied on America’s Cold War foes for over a decade, taking extremely detailed (film!) photographs from space. It was 60 feet long—bigger than a bus. And the public never ...
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