The KH-11 KENNEN (later renamed CRYSTAL, then Evolved Enhanced CRYSTAL System, and codenamed 1010: 82  and Key Hole: 82 ) is a type of reconnaissance satellite...

CORONA series: KH-1 KH-2 KH-3 KH-4 KH-5 Argon KH-6 Lanyard KH-7 Gambit KH-8 Gambit 3 KH-10 (Manned Orbiting Laboratory) KH-11 Kennen KH-13 (Enhanced Imaging...

Barge CIA project authorized 1974 to raise sunken Soviet submarine K-129 KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellite Lockheed CL-400 Suntan high-altitude, high-speed...

(concurrent operations) KH-9 HEXAGON or "Big Bird" KH-10 DORIAN or Manned Orbital Laboratory KH-11 KENNEN, KH-12, KH-13. Satellite imagery Cold War "NRO review...

shipping line sometimes simply called "Crystal" CRYSTAL, code name for the KH-11 Kennen spy satellites Crystal Mover, a people mover system manufactured in Japan...

KH-1, KH-2, KH-3, KH-4 KH-5 ARGON, KH-6 LANYARD KH-7 Gambit and KH-8 GAMBIT KH-9 Hexagon "Big Bird" MOL – KH-10 KH-11 Kennen, Misty (classified project)...

the public domain. "Delta IV Parker Solar Probe". ulalaunch.com. Retrieved 11 December 2020. "ULA's Delta rocket assembly line falls silent". Spaceflight...

Manned Orbital Laboratory KH-11 KENNEN, KH-12, KH-13 SAMOS Spaceflight portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to KH-7 GAMBIT. Satellite imagery Cold...

Eisenberg-Pearson design with an additional refractive corrector. The KH-11 Kennen (or perhaps the now cancelled Future Imagery Architecture) telescopes...

CCDs had barely been used for astronomical imaging, though the first KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellite equipped with CCDs for imaging was launched...

nebula, another name for the Carina Nebula Key Hole (KH), a series of imaging satellites The KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellite, codenamed Key Hole This...

out of them". The U.S. Air Force also photographed the orbiter using a KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellite. Due to the top secret nature of the satellite...

Hubble Space Telescope, and KH-11 Kennen satellites that NRO began developing in 1971, also used the technology; by the 1980s Kennen reached Dorian's resolution...

reconnaissance photos supplied by the United States, specifically using the KH-11 KENNEN satellite. French technicians installing the reactor later said it was...

Kuroda and T. Kunii at Matsushita (now Panasonic) in 1981. The first KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellite equipped with charge-coupled device array (800...

underside of Columbia might have also lost some thermal shielding, a KH-11 KENNEN satellite was used to image the orbiter and it was determined that the...

built to maintain and repair the Key Hole set of spy satellites, such as KH-11 KENNEN, launched by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in 1976, and introduced...

speculated that the early satellites served as data relays for the first KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellites. The SDS-2 is significantly more massive at...

of the vehicle were damaged led to a hastily arranged effort to use KH-11 KENNEN spy satellites and the Kuiper Airborne Observatory to acquire imaging...

Retrieved 11 December 2020. Krebs, Gunter (4 February 2020). "SDS-3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 11 December 2020. "KH-11 / Kennen /...

"Spacecrafts [sic] Launched in 2001". Retrieved 27 May 2015. Graham, William (11 March 2011). "Delta IV dodges upper level winds and launches with NROL-27...

device detectors, although these had been flown in space in 1976 in the KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellites. Roman's final role in the development of Hubble...

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...

June 11, 2014. "QuickBird 2 was successfully launched on 18 Oct 2001". Center for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Processing. 2001. Retrieved June 11, 2014...

Lockheed Martin received a contract to restart production of two legacy KH-11 Kennen satellite system with new upgrades. In 2012 NRO donated two sophisticated...

"NROL-65 seen". Seesat-L. Retrieved 28 August 2013. Krebs, Gunter. "KH-11 / Kennen / Crystal". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 28 August 2013. "National...

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NROL-32) Classified Cape Canaveral, SLC-37B Success 5 20 January 2011 KH-11 Kennen 15 (USA-224 / NROL-49) <17,000 kg (37,000 lb) Vandenberg, SLC-6 Success...

Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 26 September 2022. Krebs, Gunter (27 April 2021). "KH-11 / Kennen / Crystal". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 8 September 2021. "China...

Nixon approved Duckett’s approach. After the President’s approval, the KH-11 KENNEN Program was started, with Lockheed selected as the prime contractor and...