I wonder if we'll get any reports on the purpose of these vehicles in our/my lifetimes. It was only a decade ago we heard about Key Hole 9 - Hexagon, a 1971 evo

I wonder if we'll get any reports on the purpose of these vehicles in our/my lifetimes. It was only a decade ago we heard about Key Hole 9 - Hexagon, a 1971 evolution of 1996 KH8 Gambit that could drop multiple buckets of film over time. Thats a lot of lag before a reveal. Optical survelliance is probably not the mission here, but it's still wild that we know about this thing but have no idea what it does. It's both very reasonable to call it a "tesr vehicle", but given it's flight time, it has so many orders of magnitude more time being tested than other test flight systems that the name OTV, orbital test vehicle, feels somewhat silly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon