Rustybot t1_iwws0yo wrote
A hobbyist was able to use this photo to ID the exact spy satellite, which was previously an anonymous spec in the sky, that took the picture.
st_Paulus t1_iwzag0l wrote
>which was previously an anonymous spec in the sky, that took the picture.
There's no such thing on LEO. The fact it's a military satellite was known since the launch.
The orbit type tells us its likely purpose.
That picture confirmed it's an optical surveillance. And the most interesting part was the resolution of that picture.
We could estimate it knowing the rocket fairing diameter, which limits aperture diameter. But that was a solid confirmation.
goosewut123 t1_ix17rjy wrote
This is from KH-11. NRO confirmed that this bus is more or less a modified hubble telescope; this was around a decade ago in 2012.
https://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/kh11optics-500x460.jpg
The real crime is watching the wannabe spooks pretend to give a single fuck about our nation's talent keyhole program, but when you look for the discussion by proword - it literally only exists in less than 1% of the public conversation.
>which was previously an anonymous spec in the sky, that took the picture.
lmao
GatoNanashi t1_ix7x2vy wrote
The Kh-11 was designed before Hubble. The telescope likely took its basic design from the recon satellite, not the other way around.
That said, large Cassegrain reflectors aren't exactly rare so it may be as much convergent design as actually using the recon satellite as the basis for the telescope.
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