satellite that covertly collects data for intelligence or military applications
A list of the types of U.S. reconnaissance satellites deployed from 1960 onward Aerial view of Osama bin Laden's compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad made by the CIA. KH-4B Corona satellite U.S. Lacrosse radar spy satellite under construction A model of a German SAR-Lupe reconnaissance satellite inside a Cosmos-3M rocket. Microwave interception (Rhyolite)
A reconnaissance satellite or intelligence satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.
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