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Nice resource. I've got a great collection of MOL hardware shots, and a huge collection of declassified documents, but have not gotten around to writing an actual article on it yet. I posted one of the hardware shots earlier in the thread. I've got a lot more (and some better ones) that will go into an eventual article:http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4024.30.htmlUnfortunately the key aspects of the program (the reconnaissance mission) remain classified. I have also gotten contradictory information on how the laboratory actually flew in space. One source that I have, who I trust, claims to have seen a classified illustration of MOL in orbit, with the Gemini pointed up and the tail end pointed down--operating like Hubble with a Gemini at one end. (I posted that earlier in this threat, back in fall 2008.) But another source who contacted me in 2009 claims to know a person who worked on the camera system who said that it flew horizontally (as commonly depicted) and that the camera tube could rotate to spot targets off the ground track, and also to conceal the camera aperture when rotated 180 degrees from Earth. I'll admit that I don't know which source to believe. Unfortunately, efforts to follow up with that new source all failed despite multiple attempts.
Nice resource. I've got a great collection of MOL hardware shots, and a huge collection of declassified documents, but have not gotten around to writing an actual article on it yet.
I posted one of the hardware shots earlier in the thread. I've got a lot more (and some better ones) that will go into an eventual article:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4024.30.html
Unfortunately the key aspects of the program (the reconnaissance mission) remain classified. I have also gotten contradictory information on how the laboratory actually flew in space. One source that I have, who I trust, claims to have seen a classified illustration of MOL in orbit, with the Gemini pointed up and the tail end pointed down--operating like Hubble with a Gemini at one end. (I posted that earlier in this threat, back in fall 2008.) But another source who contacted me in 2009 claims to know a person who worked on the camera system who said that it flew horizontally (as commonly depicted) and that the camera tube could rotate to spot targets off the ground track, and also to conceal the camera aperture when rotated 180 degrees from Earth. I'll admit that I don't know which source to believe. Unfortunately, efforts to follow up with that new source all failed despite multiple attempts.
