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There was a one-day showing af a KH-9 {Hexagon, aka Big
Bird} at the NASM parking lot at Dulles. The best part was eavesdropping as there were multiple folks who'd worked on it telling others. Some met other that they'd known only by name. I met a senior EE from Perkin Elmer who related issues with the "looper" that absorbed slack in the film as the camera stopped and restarted every revolution. -- 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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From Pat Flannery:
On 9/17/2011 3:07 PM, David Lesher wrote: There was a one-day showing af a KH-9 {Hexagon, aka Big Bird} at the NASM parking lot at Dulles. *The best part was eavesdropping as there were multiple folks who'd worked on it telling others. Some met other that they'd known only by name. I met a senior EE from Perkin Elmer who related issues with the "looper" that absorbed slack in the film as the camera stopped and restarted every revolution. Photos and video of the KH-9 hehttp://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1568 Big, big, satellite! The will unveil the KH-8 Gambit tonight indoors. They intend to make public a lot of the KH-9 photos also; those should be fun to go through, especially if they release them in some form where you could view the photos from the twin cameras in 3D. The KH-8 close-up shots would be even more fun to examine, but I don't know if those are going to get released. It's easy to get the 3D-effect from a single camera in orbit. I never understood the value of using dual cameras with such a short baseline. As for the NASM display, I hope they include DSLRs and other consumer products so that the general public can get an understanding that our glorious high tech toys of today descended from nuclear force multipliers of yesteryear. There are even people who are totally into facts from space history yet absolutely clueless that things like GPS came directly from nuclear warfare technology. I haven't been back to NASM in decades, but I hope they've been keeping up on their duty to educate. ~ CT |
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On 18/09/2011 12:29 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 9/17/2011 3:07 PM, David Lesher wrote: There was a one-day showing af a KH-9 {Hexagon, aka Big Bird} at the NASM parking lot at Dulles. The best part was eavesdropping as there were multiple folks who'd worked on it telling others. Some met other that they'd known only by name. I met a senior EE from Perkin Elmer who related issues with the "looper" that absorbed slack in the film as the camera stopped and restarted every revolution. Photos and video of the KH-9 he http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1568 Big, big, satellite! The will unveil the KH-8 Gambit tonight indoors. They intend to make public a lot of the KH-9 photos also; those should be fun to go through, especially if they release them in some form where you could view the photos from the twin cameras in 3D. The KH-8 close-up shots would be even more fun to examine, but I don't know if those are going to get released. Pat WOW! Is that an R-4D engine? I always thought it had the same engine/propulsion system as the Agena. |
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On 9/17/2011 3:07 PM, David Lesher wrote:
There was a one-day showing af a KH-9 {Hexagon, aka Big Bird} at the NASM parking lot at Dulles. The best part was eavesdropping as there were multiple folks who'd worked on it telling others. Some met other that they'd known only by name. I met a senior EE from Perkin Elmer who related issues with the "looper" that absorbed slack in the film as the camera stopped and restarted every revolution. Photos and video of the KH-9 he http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1568 Big, big, satellite! The will unveil the KH-8 Gambit tonight indoors. They intend to make public a lot of the KH-9 photos also; those should be fun to go through, especially if they release them in some form where you could view the photos from the twin cameras in 3D. The KH-8 close-up shots would be even more fun to examine, but I don't know if those are going to get released. Pat |
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On 18/09/2011 6:41 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 9/17/2011 6:29 PM, Pat Flannery wrote: Photos and video of the KH-9 he http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1568 Big, big, satellite! The will unveil the KH-8 Gambit tonight indoors. NRO has put a whole bunch of stuff related to the satellites up on their website: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/GAMBHEX.html Pat Amazing stuff. Shows how out-of-date all this is. |
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On 9/17/2011 6:29 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
Photos and video of the KH-9 he http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1568 Big, big, satellite! The will unveil the KH-8 Gambit tonight indoors. NRO has put a whole bunch of stuff related to the satellites up on their website: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/GAMBHEX.html Pat |
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