On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:10:17 -0400, Dima Volodin wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:tOXnc.67372$Ik.5023508@attbi_s53...
When you're 20 miles up, no recon photo is *sideways*.

The oblique camera angles shot from a Blackbird were a lot more "sideways"
than the Keyhole photos taken from geosynchronous orbit.

A Keyhole satellite on a geosynchronous orbit? Jay, you might really, _really_
want to check your sources.

Jay Honeck

Dima

Good point. Last I heard, most (none?) of our spy sats were in a
geosynchronous orbit because the orbit would place them too high to be of
intelligence value. Thusly, we have sats in lower orbit which is why the
sat pass duration and frequency is generally known, making it far easier
to hide from the spy sats.