Post by glactus on Jul 29, 2011 1:44:40 GMT
America's first series of photo-reconnaissance or image intelligence satellites, involved more than 100 launches between 1959 and 1972. The program had the cover name Discoverer and was only declassified in 1995. The Corona family is also known as Key Hole 1 through 4.
Corona spy satellite
A Corona satellite would be placed in a polar orbit by a Thor-Agena rocket in order to take photographic swaths as it passed over the Soviet Union. It then collected its exposed film in a heat-resistant "bucket" at the nose, and the bucket would re-enter over the Pacific Ocean, deploy two small parachutes, and be recovered in midair by an aircraft towing a trapeze-like snare.
chemical plant at Al -Amiriyah
Here is the image that caused President Bush to announce that the Iraqi's had weapoms of mass destriction, the chemical plant at Al -Amiriyah taken by the NRO spy satellite in 1992
US NRO spy satellite
Spysat
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Text by Wikipedis
Telescope in avatar: Meade 16" LX 200 with equatorial pier
Astronomer in avatar: Glactus
Corona spy satellite
A Corona satellite would be placed in a polar orbit by a Thor-Agena rocket in order to take photographic swaths as it passed over the Soviet Union. It then collected its exposed film in a heat-resistant "bucket" at the nose, and the bucket would re-enter over the Pacific Ocean, deploy two small parachutes, and be recovered in midair by an aircraft towing a trapeze-like snare.
chemical plant at Al -Amiriyah
Here is the image that caused President Bush to announce that the Iraqi's had weapoms of mass destriction, the chemical plant at Al -Amiriyah taken by the NRO spy satellite in 1992
US NRO spy satellite
Spysat
Credits: These are non copywrite images
Text by Wikipedis
Telescope in avatar: Meade 16" LX 200 with equatorial pier
Astronomer in avatar: Glactus