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Author | : Frederic C. E. Oder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Artificial satellites, American |
ISBN | : |
The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The system that became Hexagon faced three major challenges. The first was development of the technology, which was eventually overcome by the Itek and Perkin-Elmer Corporations. The second was bureaucratic, deciding how the CIA and Air Force would cooperate in building such a system because they each had strengths and weaknesses in the development of national reconnaissance systems. The third challenge was to secure the resources that were required to build the most complicated and largest reconnaissance satellites at the time. By 1971, the NRO overcame the challenges to successfully launch the Hexagon satellite and fulfill, or even exceed, expectations for unparalleled insight into capabilities of US adversaries.
Author | : Philip Pressel |
Publisher | : AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Artificial satellites, American |
ISBN | : 9781624102035 |
Presents the recently declassified story of the design, development, production, and operation of the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite, that provided photographic intelligence to the United States government, and it stands as one of the most complicated systems ever put into space.
Author | : Teddy Borth |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680802550 |
These six-sided wonders are hiding all around us! Bees and turtles both love them. Easy text and large pictures help early readers discover hexagons are fun!
Author | : Richard J. Chester |
Publisher | : Study of National Reconnaissance |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"In late 1965, the stage was being set for the final study of a new generation photographic satellite. It would be required to provide the resolution of earlier close-look satellites while simultaneously providing the broad area coverage capability of previous search/surveillance systems. On July 21, 1966 proposals for the Hexagon sensor were submitted to the government by both Itek and the Perkin-Elmer Corporation. At 1700 on October 10, Mr. Robert Sorensen, then Senior Vice President, Optical Group, received an important phone call from Mr. John J. Crowley, Director of Special Projects, CIA, -- Perkin-Elmer's proposal was accepted by the government. This is a story of the events that followed."--Introduction.
Author | : Jack L. Chalker |
Publisher | : Baen Books |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743471539 |
First published in 1978, Chalker's third novel of the Well World universe finds master criminal Mavra Chang trapped on Well World, who along with her companions is transformed into no-longer humans that are being hunted. Reissue.
Author | : Pamela Cosman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800472983 |
When three kids' secret code is interfered with, it's the start of an adventure.
Author | : Marilyn Burns |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780590489911 |
In this introduction to polygons, a triangle convinces a shapeshifter to make him a quadrilateral and later a pentagon, but discovers that where angles and sides are concerned, more isn't always better.
Author | : Frederic C. E. Oder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Artificial satellites, American |
ISBN | : |
This volume is the story of a photographic satellite called GAMBIT, which was developed to perform at even better resolutions than CORONA and work against specified targets -- an operation usually referred to as "surveillance mode." GAMBIT fulfilled this surveillance function from July 1963 to April 1984.
Author | : Naomi Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780192774613 |
No matter how hard she tries, Triangle doesn't roll like the circles, or stack like the squares. She sets off to find friends that look exactly like her. But when she finds other triangles, playtime isn't as fun. She misses shapes that roll and stack; she misses being different. So she starts a new quest.
Author | : Maurice G. Burnett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Artificial satellites, American |
ISBN | : |
The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The Hexagon mapping camera flew on 12 of the 20 Hexagon missions. It proved to be a remarkably efficient and prodigious producer of imagery for mapping purposes. The mapping camera system was successful by every standard including technical capabilities, reliability, and capacity.