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An image (resolution ~10 cm/px) of the damaged launch pad at Imam Khomeini Spaceport after a rocket explosion on 29 August 2019, speculated as being taken by a KH-11. In 1978, a young CIA employee named William Kampiles was accused of selling a KH-11 System Technical Manual describing design and operation to the Soviets. Kampiles was convicted ...
Cold War - Stole a top-secret American KH-11 spy satellite manual and sold it to the Soviets. William Peter Kampiles (born December 21, 1954) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee during the Cold War known for selling a top secret KH-11 spy satellite manual in 1977.
An unnamed space analyst stated that the instruments may be a part of the KH-11 Kennen line of satellites which have been launched since 1976, but which have now been largely superseded by newer telescopes with wider fields of view than the KH-11. The analyst stated, however, that the telescopes have "state-of-the-art optics" despite their ...
All of the Corona missions, with the exception of the KH-11 Kennan program, would make use of photographic film, which would have to survive re-entry through the atmosphere and be recovered. Keyhole - Keyhole was the designation for the initial Corona launches, which included KH-1, KH-2, KH-3, KH-4A, and KH-4B. The name was used because it is ...
William Kampiles, a low-level worker in the CIA 24-hour Operations Center, sold the Soviets a detailed operational manual for the KH-11 reconnaissance satellite. [ 33 ] Human rights concerns
The Titan IIID or Titan 3D was an American expendable launch system, part of the Titan rocket family.Titan IIID was flown 22 times with KH-9 and KH-11 satellites between 1971 and 1982, all successful launches. [1]
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. The CORONA [1] program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force.
Key Hole (KH) is the designation for a series of American optical reconnaissance satellites: KH-1 Corona; KH-2 Corona; KH-3 Corona; KH-4 Corona; KH-5 Argon; KH-6 Lanyard; KH-7 Gambit; KH-8 Gambit 3; KH-9 Hexagon/Big Bird; KH-10 Dorian/Manned Orbiting Laboratory; KH-11 Crystal/Kennan; KH-12 Improved Crystal/Ikon/Advanced Kennan