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Reading newspaper headlines from satellite imagery was possible in the late 1960s. Source: my father, who worked at Kodak and Hughes Aircraft on such systems.
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
Reading newspaper headlines from satellite imagery was possible in the late 1960s. Source: my father, who worked at Kodak and Hughes Aircraft on such systems.
- samstave 4y agoDEAR GOD I hope you have some images which you can share?
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI don’t; they were all classified projects (NRO and others), so if he took anything like that home, I’m sure it would have been trouble.
- samstave 4y agouname checks out, move along.
- gorkish 4y agoWith due respect, everybody's got a story. Stamp "Classified" on something and you can bet your ass the tall tales are going to flow. From orbit, no it wasn't and still isn't for that matter. It's beyond the diffraction limit of any real or made up lens or mirror we have ever put in space to do this. As far as I am aware, synthetic aperture optical techniques aren't there yet either. Source: Physics