A Tentative Fleet Plan
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DORIAN was not limited by the quality of film, but by atmospheric interference.
So let see what image resolution and task had the Keyhole Satelliten
KH-9 HEXAGON - 9.1 m to 6.1 m (30 ft to 20 ft) - Military Mapping - 1971 to 1986.
Since KH-9 was Mapping only, was KH-10 planned successor for KH-8 ?
A lot of these numbers are wrong.
yeah, its difficult to get right dataYour resolution for HEXAGON is too low
So why are you ripping someone a new one when they don't have access to the real numbers?but you won't find that in any unclassified source.
So why are you ripping someone a new one when they don't have access to the real numbers?
Your numbers are still bad.
You got source on that ?CORONA started out with really low resolution, but best resolution for the KH-4B was a little better than 6 feet.
KH-7 GAMBIT-1 was at best around 2-3 feet.
KH-8 GAMBIT-3 was at best 4 inches (although somebody who worked on it told me that the best resolution was 2.4 inches). I think that the original goal for the program was around 12 inches.
There are the official HEXAGON numbers and the real ones. According to a guy who worked on the camera system, the best ever HEXAGON resolution was 6 inches, but you won't find that in any unclassified source.
You got source on that ?
Mysterious MOL concepts
Long forgotten manned military space station ambitions
by Hans Dolfing
Monday, October 28, 2024
The year 1963 was a year of turmoil in the United States. On the military side, the US Air Force had left the Army and Navy behind with efforts on military manned space flight. In the tug-of-war between civilian and military spaceflight goals, the Military Orbital Space Station (MODS) was cancelled and discussion on a more national space station picked up steam. At the same time, the US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, during his seven years in office, exercised influence to de-emphasize military manned spaceflight in favor of civilian space exploration. On the civilian side, just as NASA and the Apollo program were picking up speed to go to the moon, the visionary John F. Kennedy was murdered and Lyndon B. Johnson took over.