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Old August 23rd 08, 01:31 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...the_iss_t.html

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Old August 23rd 08, 01:40 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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On Aug 22, 5:31*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...the_iss_t.html


Could be. In Ancient Times, the cosmonauts were seconded to the GRU.

OTOH, what restrictions are there on ISSonauts wrt receiving requests
from their government to take pictures of whatever?
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Old August 23rd 08, 06:30 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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"Allen Thomson" wrote in message
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OTOH, what restrictions are there on ISSonauts wrt receiving requests
from their government to take pictures of whatever?

The cameras on ISS don't have the ability to take images showing anything
more than a major city; with no details of what is within that city.


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Old August 23rd 08, 07:30 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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The cameras on ISS don't have the ability to take images showing anything
more than a major city; with no details of what is within that city.

How do you know this?


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Old August 23rd 08, 07:36 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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"Marcus Welby" wrote in message
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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The cameras on ISS don't have the ability to take images showing anything
more than a major city; with no details of what is within that city.

How do you know this?


Have a look at the pictures taken by the astronauts - and the television
images - no detail at all. They can barely take pictures of the eye of a
massive hurricane/cyclone, let alone anything of military significance.

Unless, of course, someone is suggesting 'hidden' cameras on some module or
another; but I doubt anyone other than a CT would be stupid/obsessed enough
to say that.


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Old August 23rd 08, 09:24 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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On Aug 23, 6:36*pm, "Alan Erskine" wrote:
"Marcus Welby" wrote in message

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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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The cameras on ISS don't have the ability to take images showing anything
more than a major city; with no details of what is within that city.

How do you know this?


Have a look at the pictures taken by the astronauts - and the television
images - no detail at all. *They can barely take pictures of the eye of a
massive hurricane/cyclone, let alone anything of military significance.

Unless, of course, someone is suggesting 'hidden' cameras on some module or
another; but I doubt anyone other than a CT would be stupid/obsessed enough
to say that.


Not to mention the fact that spysats also orbit the Earth at a much
lower altitude ~120 miles or so, also a 32"/800mm lenses wouldn't give
you the resolution of a modern spysay either.
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Old August 25th 08, 08:49 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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Pat Flannery wrote:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...the_iss_t.html



The bigger question is why would NASA bother including this in its
status report.

While it is clear (from outside the USA) that the USA has done many
things to stirr things up against Russia, I would have hoped that NASA
would have remained neutral and not contributed to the current USA
policy of smearing Russia.

The information released by NASA may be factual, but what NASA selects
to publish is editorial.
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Old August 25th 08, 08:53 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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Allen Thomson wrote:

OTOH, what restrictions are there on ISSonauts wrt receiving requests
from their government to take pictures of whatever?


The agreements binding the ISS members together prohibit military work
aboard the ISS. Although I *think* that the USA has a few exceptions to
this, but they are still very limited.

Taking pictures with a handheld camera would not be considered military
work, probably not even close in terms of value of the pictures.

For a picture to have value to the military, it need to be accompanied
with precise position, time, attitude and altitude. satellites do that.
Handheld cameras don't.
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Old August 25th 08, 09:55 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.station,sci.space.policy
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Handheld cameras don't.


Not true at least inso far as digital cameras are concerned, the image
file is accompanied by an associated file that has details such as
make and model of camera, date of photo taken, exposure and a few
other details but aside from the time stamp, I doubt there's any other
militarily useful information.

 




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