On 2011-11-07 23:34, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Kodak received gobs of money from the dark side USG to develop the CCD sensor for their Digital Imaging satellites, beginning with the K-11, built in 75/76, Launched in 77. I have one here somewhere in a box with my other treasures from the day. Incredibly fine CCDs, considering the resolution they provided for 9", then 5" film, where an image of a 20 mile wide swath would resolve a 1 foot item 190 miles below. The CCDs were only 1.5 inches long, three of them overlapped and combined digitally. —__— Black and white only.
I have to wonder how much of that technology is still wrapped up in "compartmentalized" security (the step above Top/Most Secret, sometimes known as Codeword Classified). The optics as well as the electronics, the RF, the crypto, ...
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