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Nicolas PILLET
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Thank you for this clear answer, Blackstar !
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Here is the KH-8, which shows how the reentry vehicles were mounted. Somebody pointed out to me that they are not exactly one behind the other. The second one is slightly offset from center.
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Project Upward: hauling the NRO’s GAMBIT to the Moon.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2596/1
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Was over at the Smithsonian this morning when they wheeled in their GAMBIT-1 satellite. Here it is on display a few minutes before the museum opened.
I'll have an article about the installation with a bunch more photos (I got photographs of it coming off the truck, being unwrapped, pushed into position, etc. Also photos of the interior, the camera door cover, etc.)
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Timing couldn't be better; I plan on taking my sons to the Smithsonian this summer. I'll make sure to point out the parts of this that were made by their neighbors.
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2784/1
GAMBIT in the house
by Dwayne Day
Monday, July 6, 2015
On July 12, 1963, the first of the top secret GAMBIT reconnaissance satellites sailed into a California sky atop an Atlas-Agena rocket. On June 30, 2015, one of the last remaining GAMBITs finally appeared at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC—eighteen years after its owners and Smithsonian officials had first discussed displaying it.
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The CIA posted an article about the U-2 at Area 51 today:
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2015-featured-story-archive/area-51-u-2-and-the-accidental-test-flight.html
The article includes a number of images of U-2 operations at Area 51/Groom Lake. I don't know for sure, but I think that many of these are previously unpublished. They really give you a feeling for the remoteness and the isolation of the location.
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bump...
KH-7 Gambit Spy Satellite First Launch cross post:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44659.msg1791369#msg1791369
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