CORONA (satellite)
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The CORONA program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science and Technology with substantial assistan
The recovery of the Discoverer 14 return capsule (typical for the CORONA series)
A KH-4B CORONA satellite
Discoverer 14 launch 1960, Thor Agena "A" launch vehicle
CORONA image of The Pentagon, 25 September 1967
KH-7 Gambit
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BYEMAN codenamed GAMBIT, the KH-7 was a reconnaissance satellite used by the United States from July 1963 to June 1967. Like the older CORONA system, it acquired imagery intelligence by taking photogr
CORONA (satellite)
…series of satellites (dubbed "Keyhole" or KH), launched from 1959 to 1972. CORONA was complemented and ultimately succeeded by the higher-resolution KH-7 Gambit and KH-8 Gambit 3 series of satellites. A complementary but ultimately unsuccessful program was the SAMOS satellites, whose E-1 and E-2 series captured…
KH7-13 launch on Atlas-Agena
A KH-7 GAMBIT-1 launch configuration (with Agena D service module).
A KH-7 GAMBIT-1 on-orbit configuration (w/o Agena D service module).
A KH-7 GAMBIT in launch configuration on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.