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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by mistrial9 on Friday September 24, 2021 @04:35PM (#28647485)
my colleague in the 90s worked in Huntsville, Alabama, and if the story is true, had duties down deep in a bunker where satellite imagery was stored. People whispered it was "the whole Earth" but now we know that there are clouds :-)

interesting story however

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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by Animats on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:27PM (#28648473)
If you're into that, NRO published a history of their early years.[1] More on the collection side than the analysis side. In the early years, it was more about collecting imagery of specific areas of interest. Now, there's a flood of imagery of the whole planet to be analyzed. NRO buys most of that from commercial vendors.

Which resulted in NRO getting flak from Congress over the rather large building complex they built out by Dulles Airport.

[1] https://www.nro.gov/History-and-Studies/50th-Anniversary-Arc...

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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by selimthegrim on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:10PM (#28649479)
The plane crash on its doorstep probably didn’t help?
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