SAMOS - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive Discover the Truth Thu, 24 May 2018 05:58:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-siteicon-2-150x150.jpg SAMOS - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive 32 32 87123917 A summary of the National Reconnaissance Problem, 13 May 1965 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/a-summary-of-the-national-reconnaissance-problem-13-may-1965/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-summary-of-the-national-reconnaissance-problem-13-may-1965 Thu, 24 May 2018 05:58:07 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=6078 Background Excerpt from document: “Intelligence vital to the national security of the US now depends to a very large extent on photography acquired by overhead reconnaissance. This important intelligence source has been developed quite dramatically over the past ten years. All of our present photography has been collected by there reconnaissance systems.” Document Archive  A summary [...]

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Excerpt from document:

“Intelligence vital to the national security of the US now depends to a very large extent on photography acquired by overhead reconnaissance. This important intelligence source has been developed quite dramatically over the past ten years. All of our present photography has been collected by there reconnaissance systems.”

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 A summary of the National Reconnaissance Problem, 13 May 1965 [24 Pages, 2.9MB]

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]]> 6078 SAMOS – Satellite and Missile Observation System https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/samos-satellite-and-missile-observation-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=samos-satellite-and-missile-observation-system Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:44:39 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=1042 The Samos E or SAMOS (Satellite and Missile Observation System) program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United States in the early 1960s, also used as a cover for the initial development of the KH-7 Gambit system. Reconnaissance was performed with film cameras and television surveillance from polar low Earth orbits [...]

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]]> The Samos E or SAMOS (Satellite and Missile Observation System) program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United States in the early 1960s, also used as a cover for the initial development of the KH-7 Gambit system. Reconnaissance was performed with film cameras and television surveillance from polar low Earth orbits with film canister returns and transmittals over the United States. Samos was first launched in 1960, but not operational until 1963 and all were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. SAMOS was also known by the unclassified terms Program 101 and Program 201.

 SAMOS To The Moon: The Clandestine Transfer of Reconnaissance Technology Between Federal Agencies, October 2001 [8 Pages, 1.71MB] – Among those who share a passing interest in the history of astronautics, two popular myths remain in vogue. The first contends that the U.S. Air Force, which began American work on reconnaissance satellites with the SAMOS Project failed in the late 1950s in its efforts to create a near real time film imaging system. Second. and entirely dependent on the first axiom. . the electro-optical imaging system developed later by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) represents the first application of near real time satellite imaging. The actual story, as you might suppose at this point, is rather different.

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