Project SAINT
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Project SAINT was a project undertaken by the United States during the Cold War to develop a means of intercepting, inspecting and destroying Soviet spacecraft. Many details relating to the project ar
A diagram of one of the SAINT project satellites
An Atlas-Centaur booster launching
The NORAD facility at Colorado Springs
A missile carried by the F-15 Eagle fighter jet to shoot down satellites
Samos (satellite)
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The SAMOS or SAMOS-E program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United States in the early 1960s, also used as a cover for the initial development of the KH-7 GAM
An artist impression of SAMOS photoreconnaissance missions.
U.S. reconnaissance satellites: SAMOS at the top left and CORONA at the bottom left.
Atlas LV-3 Agena-A with SAMOS 1
Atlas LV-3 Agena-A with SAMOS 2