Harry Stranger

spacefromspace.com/declassified... is now home to over 700 georeferenced spy satellite images of locations all over the world taken between 1960 and 1984! I've also published a new, very experimental, map view search method for all images available on the website: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

My article with Harry is online: thespacereview.com/article/5339/1

Harry and I have an article in The Space Review this week. This is the subject.

It's finally here!🎉👉: soaratlas.com/kh-7gambit Step back into the Cold War and explore a collection of vintage satellite images with this stunning interactive experience. Compare the world in the 1960s with today and see just how much has changed. #ColdWar #SatelliteImagery #History #Space

Harry and my new article is now online. Read and rejoice: thespacereview.com/article/5334/1

Harry and I have an article in this week's Space Review on tracking the M-50 and derivative M-52 bomber aircraft in Moscow in the 1960s. Includes satellite photos as well as declassified drawings. The airplane drawing is not an M-50. Maybe you can guess the type? Hint: mid-1960s Soviet.

Harry and I have an article in this week's Space Review about the M-50 Bounder bomber that first appeared in 1958. It was photographed by American satellites throughout the 1960s at the Soviet flight test center and ended up in a museum outside Moscow.

Today's Google Maps find while georeferencing maps.app.goo.gl/gHFCM3PSE6QQ...

Sometimes you try to be productive but get distracted by planes captured in mid-flight by spy satellites

☢This vintage satellite map from 1976 shows Chernobyl a decade before a nuclear disaster. Towns that were once visible have totally disappeared beneath forests and vegetation. Explore and Compare: tinyurl.com/39haakfj #Ukraine #Chernobyl #Nuclear

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as seen by two different KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite missions in 1972 and 1976. 1972: spacefromspace.com/declassified... 1976: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

A really high quality KH-7 GAMBIT capture of Irkutsk, Russia, from October 18, 1966. Just eyeballing it, this might be one of the clearest scans I've seen yet.

More space junk (starlink) polluting satellite images I believe this one is different from the previous images shared online. The image is dated March 26, 2024 - earth.google.com/web/search/5... (51.79129, 113.06751) *old man shakes fist*

Well buy me some cattle and call me a cowboy! For a few months now I have been working on an article with Harry about how the CIA confirmed that Plesetsk was an ICBM site. It is now the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but from around late 1959 until "sometime" in 1962 it was highly suspected as an ICBM site.

Stop🙅saying🙅visible🙅from🙅space🙅 ...and breathe

Taken 62 years ago today on September 24, 1964, a KH-7 spy satellite photograph showing early signs of the first soviet N-1 launch pad under construction at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The nearby rocket assembly building is visible under construction. spacefromspace.com/declassified...

A few KH-9 spy satellite images of the World Trade Center from over the years. February 5, 1974 July 13, 1978 June 27, 1979 July 6, 1982

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

A newer KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite scan of Bremerton / Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from June 30, 1975.

A really interesting look at what the US knew and didn't know about the Soviet space program in the early 1960s www.thespacereview.com/article/5287/1

Our new article is online: thespacereview.com/article/5294/1

You never know what you might find when you're being nosy. Stay tuned!

Harry Stranger and I have been doing mischief, gathering information on the Soviet Aspidnoye airfield in the far north. Not much available on it. It was a long runway, suitable for bombers, but never paved. My suspicion is they had bigger plans and never finished it. No aircraft in any photos.

My new article is online: thespacereview.com/article/5290/1

Looking for satellite reconnaissance images to include in my LANYARD part 3 article and came across this July 1961 CORONA photo of the Soviet nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya. I'm using the images for general illustration, not because the article is about NZ. Tsar Bomba was detonated here 10-31-61

Part 2 is now online. thespacereview.com/article/5286/1

Part 2 of my LANYARD article should be online soon. These 1963 photos are from the only successful mission. Obtained by Harry Stranger, never published before.

A couple more images of the KH-6 LANYARD camera system. One image shows both the film supply and takeup reels at the front of the camera. That takeup reel would have been mounted inside a reentry vehicle. Other photo shows the image reflecting mirror that looked down at Earth, and the camera lens.

Part 2 of my LANYARD series will be in The Space Review this coming week. The Samos E-5 camera was converted into the KH-6 LANYARD camera. Smaller, simpler, and using systems from the proven CORONA program. The article will also feature never-before-seen recon photos, via Harry Stranger.

My new article is online. This will be in three parts. Part 1 is mostly about the Samos E-5. Part 2 will mostly be about the KH-6 LANYARD, and part 3 will be about the Samos E-6 and SPARTAN. thespacereview.com/article/5281/1

🚀 A high-res satellite image from Vantor, captured on August 3, showing Ship 40 secured alongside the Normand Ranger in the Indian Ocean. The imagery shows SpaceX's post-splashdown recovery operations in action. Explore the map: soaratlas.com/maps/142237 #SpaceX #Starship

This will be a fun one, including some newly scanned images.

I've been getting a lot of reminders lately as to why I pivoted my site's main focus from current satellite images of spaceports to historical declassified satellite imagery of locations all over the world. Aside from my personal interests, it was definitely the right call.

AI *cannot* generate information that’s not in the original raw data. Sharpening adds detail that is pleasing to the human eye, not genuinely new features. 🛰️🖼️

Vladivostok is one hell of an interesting place to look at from above. Taken on Feb 2, 1967, by a KH-7 GAMBIT satellite. I wouldn't mind having a house in the 3rd picture and watch the planes go down the street. Full image: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

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