Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
Cold War’s best kept secret: Spy satellite that stayed hidden for 30 years
Launched in utter secrecy, Parcae’s orbital triads tracked Soviet warships in real-time, offering a vital edge at the height ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN7d
A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the ...
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The Spy Satellite That Helped Win the Cold War
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Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace for nearly 10 years, MI5 files reveal
But once Blunt fell ill in March 1973, Elizabeth was officially informed that her former employee was a Soviet spy. She was notified only then, when Blunt fell ill, in case a media uproar took ...