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GAMBIT vs KENNEN: The persistence of film reconnaissance in the digital age

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While the US started operating electro-optical reconnaissance satellites in the mid-1970s, it continued to launch film-return satellites for another decade. Dwayne Day examines why those systems overlapped based on newly declassified documents.

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