Meeting the challenge
Subtitle: the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite
By: Phil Pressel, Ned Allen, editor-in-chief, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland
Contributors: Allen, Ned
Series: Library of flight
Publisher: Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Reston, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781624102035
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Space surveillance; History; American Artificial satellites; Military Astronautics; Military surveillance
Other titles: Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite
Description: "This is the declassified story of the design, development, production, and operation of the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite, which provided invaluable photographic intelligence to the U.S. government, and stands as one of the most complicated systems ever put into space."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.