How U.S. Spy Satellite Mapped Soviet Union

Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
Here's your mission, should you choose to accept it: build a camera that can take high-resolution photographs of the Earth from orbit and return them to the Central Intelligence Agency. There's only one catch: you don't get to use a computer or a single kilobyte of network bandwidth.That's the task that the United States government gave to a group of engineers at the optical instruments company Perkin-Elmer in Danbury, Connecticut at the height of the Cold War. It was October 1966 and the new development of the new satellite system, Hexagon, was underway. The project was a...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/30/how_us_spy_satellite_mapped_soviet_union_270168.html

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