Imagery Intelligence

Overview
TENCAP

Early Efforts

• SAMOS-A Pioneer
• SAMOS-B Sentry



CORONA Project

• KH-1 CORONA
• KH-2 CORONA
• KH-3 CORONA
• KH-4 CORONA
• KH-5 ARGON
• KH-6 LANYARD
• KH-7 GAMBIT
• KH-8 GAMBIT
• KH-9 HEXAGON
• KH-10 DORIAN MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory
• KH-11 KENNAN / CRYSTAL
• KH-11 DRAGON



Stealth Satellites

• MISTY / AFP-731
• NEBULA / ZIRCONIC



Space Based Radar

• INDIGO
• LACROSSE / ONYX
• Tacsat-5 SAR prototype?
• TacSat-7 SAR prototype?

Current Capabilities

• KH-12 IMPROVED CRYSTAL
• LACROSSE / ONYX
• SpaceX Starshield



Future Capabilities

• Responsive Space Program
• TacSat-2 Testbed
• TacSat-3 Prototype
• Operationally Response Satellite-1
• Kestrel-Eye
• Geostationary Imaging Satellites
• 8X
• FIA - Future Imagery Architecture to BASIC
• FIA RECSAT Concept
• E-300 Enhanced Collection System [ECS]
• L-21 Mission/USA-193
• E-305 New Radar - TOPAZ
• STARLIGHT
• Discoverer II
• Space Based Radar (SBR)
• Space Radar (SR)
• MISTY Follow-On

Commercial Systems

• Ikonos
• Digital Global
• Skysat Terra Bella
• Trinidad Northrop Grumman

Where Are They Now???

• 023728 1995-066A USA 116 --- Improved CRYSTAL 3
• 024680 1996-072A USA 129 --- Improved CRYSTAL 4
• 025744 1999-028A USA 144 --- Misty 2
• 025017 1997-064A USA 133 --- LACROSSE 3
• 026473 2000-047A USA 152 --- LACROSSE 4

Other Resources

• DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD TASK FORCE ON SATELLITE RECONNAISSANCE JAN 1998
• Utility of A Satellite Vehicle For Reconnaissance RAND CORPORATION APRIL 1951
• National Reconnaissance Office Model Homepage
• Imagery Intelligence Gallery
• IMINT Resources Online Directory

Imagery Intelligence
in the Gulf War