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Key Hole: America spy satellites (2)
When in 1974 the military brought KH-10 back (Blue Helios), the next generation of spysat - KH-11 - was already in development.
Hence the Air Force decided that the original MOL would be called KH-10A, Blue Helios being KH-10B.
But that was not the end of it.
The National reconnaissance Office used to give codename to their spy satellites, so they figured Blue Helios needed one.
The codename they picked was GREY, and there in an interesting story behind it.
The KH-10A / MOL codename had been DORIAN, and one can't help thinking about Oscar Wilde novel - even more since the novel entail a mirror, and NRO spysats is also a matter of mirrors.
There is another reason about the codename GREY. It was related to the ambiguous nature of Blue Helios: a mixture of civilian NASA (WHITE) and military NRO (BLACK).