Exquisitely unnecessary: very high resolution satellite reconnaissance

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review at 11 May, 11:59 UTC

There was a push in the 1960s and early 1970s within the US intelligence community for images with increasingly sharper resolution. Dwayne Day examines the debate within the community about the value of very high resolution images versus other requirements for satellite imagery.

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• T2Exquisitely unnecessary: very high resolution satellite reconnaissanceSpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review11 May, 11:59