Google "Talent Keyhole". Optically these birds are the Hubble with the ability to swing from one target to another very quickly using 6 gyros with disk brakes. Pretty clever, The hubble uses the same tech to stay on a target for hours at a time. KH-xx uses heavy braking, Hubble a finesse braking technique. Equally important is the electronic intelligence (ELINT) housed in the add-on capabilities of the units. Photographically, sharp timely images of areas of interest in B&W or color are being supplanted by full spectrum studies of targets.
I really don't know any more than is on the internet about the technology in use today. My ex is still in the program, but of course, she can't talk to me like we did when we were both cleared at the same level. I am personally very jealous of her position. She left the "company" we used to work for, and now works for a company called T.A.S.C., The Analytical Sciences Corporation. Their task is to marry the future needs of various government organizations (military and non-military) at 5, 10, 15, and 25 years with the projected possible outcomes of research in all areas of endeavor. These reports dictate where the government's money is poured to in our attempts to stay ahead of everyone else. Could be a company, or a person, who is asked to follow up on previous or possible future outcomes in either their line of investigative research, or to take on the task of following a path in hopes of reaching a breakthrough discoveries. Universities are one of the major recipients of this largess, a side effect of which is access to the most brilliant young persons in many fields, who can be moulded into researchers working in fields that T.A.S.C. puts forth in hopes that something great will materialize to meet future needs, as well as manufacturers who may be capable of producing said products. I'm not presenting this well. I just got up, which makes typing lucid descriptive sentences rather difficult. My apologies. On Jan 9, 2012, at 20:11 , Doug Franklin wrote: > 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, ... Joseph McAllister [email protected] THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
