Hexagon Spy Satellite Images

Photographic film aboard the kh 9 was sent back to earth in recoverable film return capsules for processing and.

Hexagon spy satellite images. Poring over the images from 1978 to 2016 they found that. 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. Intelligence satellites to return photographic film to earth. During the cold war 19 hexagon missions imaged 877 million square miles of the earth s surface between 1971 1986.

Hexagon kh 9 reconnaissance satellites were the largest and last u s. Hexagon s main purpose was wide area search. The massive kh 9 hexagon spy satellite on display at the smithsonian national air space museum s udvar hazy center after being declassified on sept. Kh 9 byeman codename hexagon commonly known as big bird or keyhole 9 was a series of photographic reconnaissance satellites launched by the united states between 1971 and 1986.

Of twenty launch attempts by the national reconnaissance office all but one were successful.