Hexagon Spy Satellite Images

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.

Hexagon spy satellite images.

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. Poring over the images from 1978 to 2016 they found that. Hexagon kh 9 is one of three formerly classified reconnaissance satellites that went on display at the national museum of the u s. Scientists turned to satellite images from hexagon and the commercial satellites spot 6 and spot 7 to track down the source of the slides.

Hexagon s main purpose was wide area search. Intelligence satellites to return photographic film to earth. Photographic film aboard the kh 9 was sent back to earth in recoverable film return capsules for processing and. 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.

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