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J. G. Baker, Designer of High-Altitude Camera Lenses, Dies at 90 - New York Times
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July 13, 2005 J. G. Baker, Designer of High-Altitude Camera Lenses, Dies at 90 By JEREMY PEARCE James G. Baker, an astronomer who designed powerful lenses and cameras for the U-2 spy plane in the 1950's and became a pioneer of satellite reconnaissance in the cold war, died on June 29 at his home in Bedford, N.H. He was 90. His death was reported by his son Neal. Dr. Baker conceived and began to build lenses for aerial cameras used by military aircraft for mapping and reconnaissance by the Army and Navy in World War II while he was still a graduate student. After the war, Dr. Baker advised the Air Force Photographic Laboratory and refined his work on high-altitude optical systems. He designed the lenses used by the U-2, which flew at 70,000 feet to escape detection and capture images of Soviet troops and missiles. ...................... -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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David Lesher wrote:
X-URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/na...gewanted=print July 13, 2005 J. G. Baker, Designer of High-Altitude Camera Lenses, Dies at 90 By JEREMY PEARCE James G. Baker, an astronomer who designed powerful lenses and cameras for the U-2 spy plane in the 1950's and became a pioneer of satellite reconnaissance in the cold war, died on June 29 at his home in Bedford, N.H. He was 90. Let's not forget that he and Joseph Nunn were co-developers of the Baker-Nunn cameras used for LEO satellite tracking! -- Dave Michelson |
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:23:59 GMT, Dave Michelson
wrote: David Lesher wrote: X-URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/na...gewanted=print July 13, 2005 J. G. Baker, Designer of High-Altitude Camera Lenses, Dies at 90 By JEREMY PEARCE James G. Baker, an astronomer who designed powerful lenses and cameras for the U-2 spy plane in the 1950's and became a pioneer of satellite reconnaissance in the cold war, died on June 29 at his home in Bedford, N.H. He was 90. Let's not forget that he and Joseph Nunn were co-developers of the Baker-Nunn cameras used for LEO satellite tracking! I've seen one of those cameras, in use at Edwards AFB in the early '60s. Really impressive resolution. They showed us a few photos of unclassified stuff (it was a tour for local high-school kids) and it was quite amazing how small some of the junk was that we could see. Being more naive at that time, I didn't think to ask how they got from photos to some sort of database usable for actual tracking, though. The satellite tracking group was in a cluster of buildings on a hilltop, just off Rosamond Blvd on Nunn-Baker Road. I don't know what they're used for now, but the Main Gate is just outside the intersection and you can see the buildings just north of Rosamond Blvd. The last time I went by they were still in use. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it. or |
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Thats why the world is overpopulated. People living TOO LONG !
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