Satellite Data Recovery Mission
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•America’s Most Advanced Spy Satellite Captured Russian Military Secrets. Then It Crashed Into the Pacific.
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The KH-9 Hexagon satellite package was the largest (and last) U.S. intelligence satellites to return photographic film to Earth .
During the Cold War , 19 Hexagon missions surveilled a collective 877 million square miles of Earth ’s surface.
No attempt had yet been made to salvage an object from such great ocean depths.
U.S. team spotted tangled mass of metal on seafloor in 1972 .
Despite extreme pressure underwater and high-velocity impact, film had survived.
The Trieste II continued deep-ocean operations until 1984 .
The ship is now on permanent display at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport , Washington .
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