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Blacker than a very black thing: the HEXAGON reconnaissance satellite signals intelligence payloads

14 January 2022

The last, failed launch of a HEXAGON reconnaissance satellite in 1986 had been thought to carry a deployable subsatellite like many other previous such missions. Dwayne Day explains how new historical evidence points to a different payload and a previously unknown NRO program.






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