Explore historical photographs captured by American reconnaissance satellites during the Cold War. Discover how cities, landscapes and historic sites looked between 1960 and 1984, alongside modern imagery of the world's spaceports.
Dive into highly detailed imagery datasets, from historic reconnaissance missions to modern top-down photography.
Explore an extensive collection of historic reconnaissance photography through a modern, interactive interface. Each scene has been carefully stitched and georeferenced from raw USGS datasets to map perfectly onto the modern globe.
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A note from Harry
I started SpaceFromSpace because I wanted to make historical satellite photography genuinely easy to explore, not buried in government archives.
Every image on this site has been individually sourced, processed, and georeferenced. The archive has grown to over 1,000 images across 90+ countries.
If you find it useful, supporting the project is the most direct way to help it grow.
Support SpaceFromSpaceThemed sets of declassified imagery, gathered from across the archive.
Baikonur (also known as Tyuratam) and Plesetsk, the two main Soviet launch complexes, photographed by CORONA, GAMBIT and…
The Chernobyl area between 1971 and 1984, years before the 1986 accident.
Shipyards, naval bases and ports on the Arctic, Baltic and Black Sea coasts, including Severodvinsk, Murmansk, Kola Bay and…
The latest declassified imagery added to the archive.
