Aurion Mission

Thursday, October 20, 2011

The National Reconnaissance Office just released video from codename Hexagon, a Cold War era spy-sat photo program. Twenty KeyHole "Big Birds" were launched from 1971 to 1986. Their resemblance to Hubble Space Telescope is not merely coincidental.
Credit: NRO

http://www.space.com/13004-declassified-spy-satellite-kh-9-hexagon.html