[bergoid]

>If these things were flying in 1997, presumably what's up there now is even better.

The USA-224 satellite was launched in 2011 and has much better capabilities than the ones that took the 1997/1998 pictures.

The Wikipedia article you quoted [1] is about the entire KH-11 series, spanning >40 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen