A history of satellite reconnaissance
Subtitle: the Robert L. Perry histories
By: Edited by James D. Outzen
Contributors: Perry, Robert L.; Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)
Publisher: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.; United States Dept. of Defense
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9781937219116
Subjects: Space surveillance; History; Military Astronautics; American Artificial satellites
Other titles: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics
Description: This history provides valuable insight into the early management of the NRO and its subsequent development and operation of the film-return family of imaging reconnaissance satellites- insight that offers both lessons and inspiration for those of us who continue to work in the field of space reconnaissance. -- Excerpted from foreward.
Notes: "August 2012."

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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Management of the National Reconnaissance Program, 1960-1965 (Perry's Volume 5); title: Section 2. Samos (Perry's Volume 2A and 2B); title: Section 3. Corona (Perry's Volume 1); title: Section 4. Gambit and Hexagon (Perry's Volume 3A and 3B); title: Section 5. Quill (Perry's Quill history); title: Section 6. Reconnaissance satellites research and development: capabilities in readout, crisis resolution, and very high resolution (Perry's Volume 4); title: Appendices.