Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
- ISBN-10
- 1624102034
- ISBN-13
- 9781624102035
- Series
- Meeting the Challenge
- Category
- Artificial satellites, American
- Pages
- 295
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Author
- Philip Pressel
Description
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.
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- 2013-01-11
- 384 pages
- Ebook
- Routledge
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- 2008
- 76 pages
- Ebook
- U.S. Government Printing Office
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