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Cold War secret revealed: Engineers in Connecticutt designed, built, and launched crazy spy satellites that contained real film. -- (link)

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Dec 27 '11, 08:57

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how they retrieved the film is crazy (news.yahoo.com)

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in the eighties my dad told me about ones that would drop into low orbit, take pics where you could tell what newspaper someone was reading, then - zork Dec 27, 09:07
Uhm, firstly: Again? Secondly: That's how all spy satellites worked until they developed new technologies to transmit the photos. -- nm - Mop (199 lbs) Dec 27, 09:02 1
- chided by Mop. I'm so ashamed. -- nm - loosilu Dec 27, 09:02

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