Hexagon (KH-9), Mapping Camera Program and Evolution, April 2012 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hexagon (KH-9), Mapping Camera Program and Evolution, April 2012 write by . This book was released on 2012*. Hexagon (KH-9), Mapping Camera Program and Evolution, April 2012 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution
Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution write by Maurice G. Burnett. This book was released on 2012. Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections
Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections write by Peter Swan. This book was released on 2015-05-25. Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This history of SAFSP is dedicated to all those men and women who fought the Cold War, in silence - from above. No organization is better at gathering overhead intelligence than the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Today's NRO grew out of 3 organizations: AF, CIA, and Navy. The AF office for satellite reconnaissance was called the Secretary of Air Force's Office of Special Projects [SAFSP]. This monograph describes the birth of Air Force satellite reconnaissance. When SAFSP was created in response to Presidential recognition of a national imperative, 4 tenets captured the sense of urgency: direct access to national leadership, covert management/operations, highest national priority, and rapid procurement. In addition, 3 management principles led to SAFSP's success over 30+ years of providing reconnaissance intelligence: strong dedication to mission, empowerment at all levels, and reporting by exception.
The Hexagon Story
The Hexagon Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hexagon Story write by Frederic C. E. Oder. This book was released on 2012. The Hexagon Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A History of Satellite Reconnaissance
A History of Satellite Reconnaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Satellite Reconnaissance write by James D. Outzen. This book was released on 2012. A History of Satellite Reconnaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
