The True Extent of US Spy Satellite Capability

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They should just announce that some of the satellites belong to just random departments. Like a brand new top-of-the-line spy satellite belongs to the department of education because they’re trying to learn what the enemy has.

11:07 - almost 100% the images of the "burn up" are a secondary payload designed to burn up in the atmosphere and act as deceptive imagery

looking at the sky through NVG's made me realize just how many satellites there are above us. it's crazy.

the eye in the sky.. but fr that wayback machine document might get removed soon

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In the 1980's I was a electronics technician at TRW in Sunnyvale, CA. At the time TRW was building electronic components for TDRSS, LandSat, Shuttle and Cassandra satellite's. At the time they were state of the art satellites, however the military satellites of the 2020's are 10X more powerful.

I'm working with satellite imagery and was very interested in history of satellite resolution and I still never realized that US had <10cm resolution back in the 1966, holy cow. Ok, maybe all those hollywood movies aren't that exaggerated.

Back in the 1970s my crew flew KH-9s and KH-11s with the help of our buddy Cray 👍 It's amazing what details show when pix are blown up to the size of banquet tables.

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Current US spy sat resolution is likely far better than Trump's tweet. There is no reason spy sats can't use adaptive optics like modern ground based astronomical telescopes do. In fact the tech should work considerably better for spy sats as they are looking at well lit known objects. As in if you have a shape in view like a building you know absolutely for sure what that building looks like and so atmospheric distortion can be much more accurately corrected. Virtually any man made object in view of known size and shape can provide accurate correction data. Moreover on top of adaptive optics which physically change shape in real time to correct atmospheric distortion. With a spy sat it can be done in software, where you take dozens or hundreds of pictures. An AI then again using known objects in the images studies how the waves of distortion move through the images, it then constructs a new image with the distortion filtered out....I would guess in current sats atmospheric distortion in the best weather conditions can be almost totally eliminated. Current spy sats are probably rubbing up against diffraction-limited angular resolution.

For anyone interested, the push to develope the first CORONA optical satelite, and the launch system to get into orbit, is a fascinating story of overcoming impossible engineering challanges, involving a meriad of expertese from Eastman Kodak to Coca Cola to Corning glassworks.

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I like the Military Industrial Complex very much

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The sky has electronic ears.