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By my math, there was only enough film in the satellite for five hours of continuous shooting. So I guess it sat dormant most of the time, and was only activate
by raldi 15y ago
By my math, there was only enough film in the satellite for five hours of continuous shooting. So I guess it sat dormant most of the time, and was only activated when there was serious intelligence need?
- weaksauce 15y agowell the video said up to 70 inches per second and there were 4 film recovery bays that would eject the pods of undeveloped film for a midair recovery by a plane. Assuming the video is correct and that the article is wrong, that would be ~15 hours per roll of film for a total of around 60 hours of continuous shooting. I would imagine that they only used it for short bursts of filming to get high value places of interest.