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Corona and Keyhole satellite imagery and the Apollo Detectives
onebigmonkey:
Dwayne Day's book linked to above provides some interesting titbits.
As with all things COld War, the USSR were developing identical systems in parallel with the US. Their ZENIT satellites, the CORONA equivalent, went for pressurised vessels:
"Unlike their American counterparts, Soviet engineers traditionally preferred to shield the most sensitive systems of their satellites from the space vacuum. Creating an artificial atmosphere inside pressurized containers was easier than designing new vacuum-rated equipment. While ensuring higher reliability, this approach had a price, since the resulting satellites were larger and heavier."
So, while there was an up front cost for the US developing vacuum rated gear, the Soviet approach gave heavier payloads and more complex systems. A key point is that CORONA systems were tested in vacuums! It's also worth mentioning the involvement of Fairchild ITEK in the program, who were behind the Apollo Panoramic camera.
CORONA satellites had another issue which was static discharge, caused by the large number of rollers involved in moving film around in a confined space at speed. It was largely resolved by improving the roller design, but often the first few frames in each reel were ruined.
Over and over in the book, and others, problems with acetate based film in a vacuum were resolved completely with the use of new, thinner, polyster based ones.
onebigmonkey:
The detectives are currently goading McKeegan in the comments section of his video. They are demanding he does a live stream with them, because he's done it with flat earthers so why not them. AFAIK, he's done livestreams with a former flat earther, discussing Apollo photography. Appearing on a livestream is a favourite demand of theirs, as if somehow it proves something. It does not. The evidence is there, live or not. Deal with it. You are not in charge of anything, you do not get to make demands of anyone. Just make your case - it doesn't have to be in person.
They are further insisting he sends off to NASA for Apollo negatives (sic) to test in a vacuum, because that's an easy thing to do. So easy, in fact, that they haven't bothered to do it themselves.
They are also criticising him on the basis that "all he has are pictures from the internet", which, given that the video I'm commenting on here consisted entirely of "an image from the internet", and them interrogating ChatGTP, on the internet, is a bit rich.
Hypocrites, all of them.
They are promising more revelations in their upcoming livestream. I look forward to it consisting of nothing from the internet.
bknight:
It will be a relief for truth when, Marcus Allen dies. He has been a grifter blowing with whatever money winds blow from Apollo believer to Apollo denier. The man has no scruples.
Ranb:
--- Quote from: onebigmonkey on August 17, 2025, 11:49:23 AM ---They are further insisting he sends off to NASA for Apollo negatives (sic) to test in a vacuum, because that's an easy thing to do. So easy, in fact, that they haven't bothered to do it themselves.
--- End quote ---
Wasn't every single negative used on the lunar surface and in the LM already exposed to a vacuum? What good would it do to "test" them again? Surely if the film was degraded by exposure to a vacuum, it would show on the prints?
onebigmonkey:
I can only assume they want the same SO film. It's conspiraloon SOP: "I demand evidence I know you can't give me, therefore I am right'.
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