Program: KH

Key Hole

American military reconnaissance program. The first satellites had a very limited lifetime. From 1959 to 1992: 266 launched including 50 failures

Boeing (with Hughes, Raytheon, Eastmal Kodak and Harris corp) is responsible for the KH-13

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External resources

http://www.milnet.com/milnet/declass.htm

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/imint/index.html
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/book/programs/nro/usafnro.html
http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/GAMBHEX.html

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