#kh-11

"Technicians at Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in Sunnyvale, California, preparing to ship NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to Kennedy Space Center."

Date: 1989

This satellite photograph, depicting a MiG-29 FULCRUM fighter jet, was shown to the Committee on Appropriations of the US House of Representatives during 1984 budget hearings in 1983 and subsequently published, apparently by mistake, in the sanitized version of the hearings released to the public. Two years later, during the trial of Samuel L. Morison, government prosecutors acknowledged that the photograph was a real satellite image, and that it wasn't produced by the KH-11 Kennan system (but ikely either by KH-8 or KH-9)

"This scene, captured with a 35mm camera from inside the Space Shuttle Endeavour, shows the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Moon together."

Date: December 13, 1993

"The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its separation from the space shuttle Endeavour following a week and a half of repairs while in the space vehicle's cargo bay."

NASA ID: December 9, 1993

"One of a series of Martin Marietta promotional artworks depicting the utility & versatility of the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), manufactured by them. Here, an astronaut is servicing/repairing what appears to be the Large Space Telescope (LST), later-known as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Note the interesting foot restraint configuration, either incorporated onto the exterior surface of the LST/HST, or possibly affixed to a mounting fixture on the satellite. And, apparently, no tools required…at least not in this instance…just a swap-out.

One of many beautiful works by Charles O. Bennett."

Posted on Flickr by Mike Ace.

Date: 1978

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in its high orbit 600 kilometres above Earth.

Date: January 26, 2011

"Endeavour with a Background of Dark Space and the Sun Displaying a Rayed Effect

One of Endeavour's spacewalkers on STS-61 captured this view of Endeavour backdropped with the blackness of space and the Sun displaying a rayed effect. The extended Remote Manipulator System arm that the astronaut was standing on for the photograph is seen in the left foreground."

Date: December 3-13, 1993