Source: Norman Friedman's Seapower and Space p365-366.
AST.9003 envisaged satellites orbiting at 200 miles in 97 degree (sun-synchronous) orbits carrying two cameras with television readout, and an ELINT Antenna.
Resolution of the cameras would be 25 and 5 yards with swath widths of 45 and 7...
Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s.
Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane.
There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...
Came across this while researching something totally different. This project was first proposed by Dr. Frank Malina (one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in late 1960 as an ideal candidate for the first activity of the just formed Academy of Astronautics (now known as the...
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3748/1
Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, July 1, 2019
The first military/intelligence payload ever scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle was a top-secret...
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2nd US Satellite: Vanguard 1 1958 NASA; Oldest Satellite Still in Orbit
Jeff Quitney
Published on Jul 13, 2018
"On March 17, (1958) a Vanguard I rocket launched an Earth satellite with solar batteries. Data from the mission was used to determine that the Earth is slightly pear-shaped.
From...
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During 1960s the French build and tested a Hovercraft Train concept called Aerotrain
About concept in english
French videos about Aerotrain
Battle Aerotrain vs TVG (in french)
Good Day All -
Some non aircraft/missile drawings from the Vought Archives of a proposed TACV - Track Air Cushion Vehicle. Apparently there as a model similar to this design shown at Transpo '72.
An article on the similar (but built) Rohr TACV is at...
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This is an orbit-to-orbit design spacecraft from the Martin Marietta corporation. I found it in a book Man's Conquest of Space by the National Geographic Society (1968). Now you know as much as I do.
Does anybody know if this was an actual study or just something slapped together by the MM...
http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1
Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, December 11, 2017
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rand corporation
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The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash,
which was totally improbable but looked very cool.
In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC.
However, in...
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Just found an interesting time-waster of a site devoted to plastic spacemen toys, specifically the ones sold by Tri-ang in the early 70s under the SpaceX (UK) and Golden Astronaut (US) line
http://www.triangspacextoys.info/index.html
But where it gets really interesting is that at least one...
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