Intelligence revolution 1960 : retrieving the corona imagery that helped win the Cold War / [edited] by Ingard Clausen and Edward A. Miller.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Clausen, Ingard, editor.

Miller, Edward A., editor.

Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space surveillance--United States--History.

Space surveillance.

Astronautics, Military--United States--History.

Astronautics, Military.

Military surveillance--United States--History.

Military surveillance.

Cold War--History.

Cold War.

United States.

Genre:

Ebook.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Retrieving the corona imagery that helped win the Cold War

Place of Publication:

Chantilly, Virginia : Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, 2012.

Summary:

Overview: Provides a history of the Corona Satellite Photo Reconnaissance Program. It was a joint Central Intelligence Agency and United States Air Force program in the 1960s. It was then highly classified.

Contents:

Preface from CSNR

Preface from Ingard Clausen

Foreword

Introduction

Challenges in developing the Corona System and utilizing the product. Reflections on Corona's tough challenges / Ingard Clausen ; Thor Booster challenge / Ingard Clausen ; Agena Booster platform challenges / Sam Araki ; Physical vs. radio frequency image recovery / Hilliard Paige ; Satellite recovery vehicle challenge / Edward Miller ; Mid-air recovery challenge / Lt Col Harold Mitchell ; Mid-air retrieval challenge / Lt Robert Counts ; Photo interpreter challenge / David Doyle ; Eisenhower briefing challenge / Dino Brugioni

Corona's Cover, Discoverer. Objective of Discoverer / Ingard Clausen ; Creating the satellite aeromedical recovery vehicle program / Marvin Clarke ; Design of Discoverer's primate life support system / John Hoffnagle ; Space environmental qualification test of the recovery capsule including primate / George Christopher ; Spitsbergen incident / Edward Miller and George Christopher

Five "Firsts" of Corona. Systems design of a satellite recovery vehicle / Robert Chamberlin ; First man-made object to eject, stabilize, and propel itself to de-orbit a payload / Max Dienemann and George Christopher ; First man-made object to reenter from orbit / Walter Scafer, Florian Brent, John Segletes, George Sutton, and Harold Bloom ; First satellite recovery vehicle to be recovered from orbit / Florian Brent, Robert Lowe, Anthony Smith, Bernard Mirowsky, Willian Woebkenberg, and Borge Anderson ; First photographs recovered from space from a 3-Axis stabilized platform / Cdr Robert Haviland

Recovery Operational Challenges, 1960-1973. Requalification testing the SRV at Lockheed / Charles Robinson, Alfred Gross, Henry Bried, and Walter Overstreet ; 104 successful missions for the SRV / Walter Smith, Daniel Rossman, Alfred Little II, Myron Peterson, Robert Gross, William Wier, Edmond Bryce Sr, Clifford Barr, Richard Lasher, Edwin Hearn and Bruce Waechter

Afterword

Appendix 1: Aftermath for General Electric aerospace businesses

Appendix 2: Autobiographical businesses

Appendix 3: Biographical tributes

Appendix 4: People of Corona.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 30, 2014).

"April 2012."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 12-13) and index.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Intelligence revolution 1960

OCLC:

872579569

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