1968 Spy Satellite ICBM launch warning surveillance camera

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1968 Spy Satellite ICBM launch warning surveillance camera. In 1968-1969 two of the first experimental SIGINT satellites of the Spook Bird type were put into quasistationary orbit. These were used for following the buildup of groupings of Soviet forces in the Far East during the period of deterioration of Soviet- Chinese relations in the end of the 1960s (after the conflict on Damanskiy Island). US intelligence services used these satellites to intercept, for example, communications in radio nets controlling the flight of Soviet bombers, the crews of which were at that time undergoing intensive training. 1968 Spy Satellite ICBM launch warning surveillance camera. In 1968-1969 two of the first experimental SIGINT satellites of the Spook Bird type were put into quasistationary orbit. These were used for following the buildup of groupings of Soviet forces in the Far East during the period of deterioration of Soviet- Chinese relations in the end of the 1960s.

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