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100 1 $aOder, F. C. E.$q(Frederic C. E.)
245 14 $aThe Hexagon story /$c[F.C.E. Oder, J.C. Fitzpatrick, & P.E. Worthman].
246 1 $iAt head of title:$aCenter for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics
260 $aChantilly, VA :$bCenter for the Study of National Reconnaissance,$c2012.
300 $aviii, 259 pages :$bcolor illustrations, maps, portraits ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"April 2012."
500 $aShipping list no.: 2012-0358-P.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTechnological ambush: a nation at risk -- Technological response: scientists in the White House -- Space claimants and inheritors -- The Air Force space heritage -- A new inheritor: the National Reconnaissance office -- A new space claimant: FULCRUM -- Competing claimants: FULCRUM and S-2 -- A new space inheritor: the CIA -- The Hexagon development program -- The Hexagon flight program -- Hexagon under new management -- Hexagon financial summary -- A goodly heritage.
520 $aThe United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The system that became Hexagon faced three major challenges. The first was development of the technology, which was eventually overcome by the Itek and Perkin-Elmer Corporations. The second was bureaucratic, deciding how the CIA and Air Force would cooperate in building such a system because they each had strengths and weaknesses in the development of national reconnaissance systems. The third challenge was to secure the resources that were required to build the most complicated and largest reconnaissance satellites at the time. By 1971, the NRO overcame the challenges to successfully launch the Hexagon satellite and fulfill, or even exceed, expectations for unparalleled insight into capabilities of US adversaries.
611 27 $aCold War (1945-1989)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01754978
650 0 $aSpace surveillance$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAstronautics, Military$zUnited States.
650 0 $aArtificial satellites, American$xHistory.
650 0 $aReconnaissance aircraft$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aCold War.
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650 7 $aAstronautics, Military.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00819604
650 7 $aReconnaissance aircraft.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01091533
650 7 $aSpace surveillance.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01127934
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aFitzpatrick, J. C.$q(James C.)
700 1 $aWorthman, P. E.$q(Paul E.)
710 2 $aCenter for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)
776 08 $iOnline version:$aOder, F.C.E.$tHexagon story$w(OCoLC)805127353
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