On February 2, 1967, the U.S. Air Force launched a top-secret surveillance satellite called Key Hole 7-36.
This was the 36th of 38 satellites that the Air Force launched under a project codenamed Gambit. These satellites acquired some of the first high-resolution spy satellite images of places including China, the former Soviet Union, Israel and more. Key Hole 7-36 only spent about 10 days in orbit before returning to Earth with rolls of undeveloped film, which arrived in capsules that the Air Force then had to find and retrieve. Thousands of images from these spy satellite missions were declassified in 2002.
This was the 36th of 38 satellites that the Air Force launched under a project codenamed Gambit. These satellites acquired some of the first high-resolution spy satellite images of places including China, the former Soviet Union, Israel and more. Key Hole 7-36 only spent about 10 days in orbit before returning to Earth with rolls of undeveloped film, which arrived in capsules that the Air Force then had to find and retrieve. Thousands of images from these spy satellite missions were declassified in 2002.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04On February 2, 1967, the U.S. Air Force launched a top-secret
00:08surveillance satellite called Keyhole 736. This was the
00:1236th of 38 satellites that the Air Force launched under a project codenamed Gambit.
00:16These satellites acquired some of the first high-resolution spy satellite
00:20images of places including China, the former Soviet Union, Israel,
00:24and more. Keyhole 736 only spent about 10 days
00:28in orbit before returning to Earth with rolls of undeveloped film, which arrived
00:32in capsules that the Air Force then had to find and retrieve.
00:36Thousands of images from these spy satellite missions were declassified in 2002.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:44NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology