The CIA's Secret Corona Spy Satellite Program 

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Sure.....all three of your gramps worked for the cia....riiiiight.

My grampa was the CIA. We aren't even USAricans

My uncle works for Nintendo.

my grandfather worked on something different. similar satellites, but he worked on the guidance systems. a lot of stuff still isn't declassified, some of the satellites he worked on in the 90s before he retired are still in use, but he did had some very interesting negatives in some old boxes i used to go through when i was a kid. those negatives were probably from the late 1970s and they looked like pictures taken from aircraft at close range.. but they were from a satellite. WAY better than the stuff showed in this video.

i came here just to like this comment because of the truth in it

yup, won't be long before some stupid flat earther takes scott's "thats when NASA brought corona back from space" quote and twists it to his own crazy narrative.

@@SpydersByte I thought Flat Earthers thought that space was fake. That'd mean that a Flat Earther would have to concede that space and space programs are real, in order for Corona to be brought back from it

​@@weldonwin Well, we can't all be as intelligent as you weldonwin. Unfortunately people mock anyone who believes in any conspiracy theory, when in fact there is truth behind quite a bit of them. No i'm not talking about flat earth or lizard people, but real down to earth things like conspiracy to commit murder to protect pedophiles in high places. (epstein case) Conspiracies regarding your health, like illegal drugtesting conducted in the us and canada. There are in fact many theories that have turned out true, and calling someone a conspiritard just undermines your own case and makes you look ignorant.

@@StopaskingformynameRU-vid My comment wasn't meant to mock, but was meant as a joke. Unfortunately, humor doesn't always carry over in text.

When you're 76 and a Covid elite it's no big deal. It just takes a couple of days in bed, some paracetamol, ibuprofen. and lots of sleep. When I had it, Feb 2020, it was just "the flu".

@Evilmike42 As long as it's a home brew IPA. Eighteen litres, bottled two weeks ago, just ready today, 4.5 ABV and very nice.

I live near the tiny town of Corunna Indiana which pronounced the same. It’s the home of a very popular butcher, visited by people as far away Fort Wayne and beyond

@@petermainwaringsx You probably had the actual flu. I know I did back in January. They went wide on the B-strain with last year's vaccine. 'Beats taking a clean hit from the A strain, though -- that thing'll knock a 20 year old down for a week. Annoyingly though, you might be right that it *may* have been in central US before anyone knew it was. It's only a few data points, but I got hit by *some* thing in February myself. It wasn't the flu, as I'd already struck that down, and the strep test came back negative as well. Whatever it was hit like a truck for about 2 days while my immune system went General Sherman on it, *lingered* weirdly for nearly a week, and left behind a single-nostril sinus infection that took a run of amoxicillin to properly clean out. A few others I know had a similar experience around the same time. Not enough data to say a thing, but with more evidence it would imply the virus was already here and quietly spreading -- there just wasn't much of it yet. Then the cruise ships attacked.

He has defeated the algorithm with his accent.

Is this Sasquatch the kind that wears a tinfoil hat and hangs out in alleyways, rooting through fastfood dumpsters and also claims to be President Kennedy who escaped the assassination attempt and is forming a resistance against the Lizard People?

weldonwin - The very same!

Bigger than anyone could ever imagine. President Kennedy likes 17. So do.

Bigger than anyone could ever imagine. President Kennedy likes 17. So do I.

Good news everyone!

venture Bros flashbacks

Yeah because he actually teaches you stuff

How? The title matches the video content, it's not click bait in anyway shape or form.

@@Duncan23 were you not expecting some personnel covid tracker? First thing I thought lol. Btw never said it was click bait I said quite the opposite ;) cheers!

@@Duncan23 Moron.

If forgot about this, I was a 35G.

Thank you for this

I also worked at DMAAC in 1979-1984. A fascinating time

USA! Gotta keep an eye on those dirty reds

T65Bx Corona has been a deep state program since the 1950s.

It wasn't really the first.

@@EFCasual You don't say?

Corona was the 1st photorecce s/C, but GRAB was earlier for RF.

Did you know the balloons which carried the cameras were made by General Mills? How The Maker of Cheerios 'Helped' The Soviet Space Program ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YDs8rz7pRLQ.html

@@scottmanley Hahahaha! I thought I saw that "radiation-hardened film" story somewhere :-)

KARONA 😉

It's not named after that though, corona is just Latin for crown.

Ive Harzing I know, I really wish we had a better name for the virus.

Those viruses are called coronaviruses because they look like Sun's corona. Sun's atmosphere is called a corona because it looks like a crown.

@@dionemoolman We had one. "Wuhan Virus". It was ruled by CNN to be racist.

Hmm yes the Cessna youtube

There's U-2, the Lockheed U-2, and RU-vid. Exactly one of those is still good at what it claims to be good at.

PROJECT SCOOP!!! CORONA IS ANDROMEDA! WILDFIRE CONTAINMENT FAILURE! GAME OVER MAN! *GAME OVER!!!*

Pretty sure I already saw that on Facebook.

And they caught it with an aircraft so they could control the dissemination!

@@zkummer2359 🙈🤦🏻‍♂️😂😅

Man that timestamp is perfect- that made me laugh way harder than I should have!

id also love the KH-11 it has a interesting story with sts-1

yup,please,surely it involved very interesting related stuff around it.lets push this comment up.

One vernier looked “dirtier” than the others, was that a real thing or just optics?

@@unmatort that might just be the exhaust and not a typical vernier, though exhaust were often used as verniers

Andy Saltis both LR-101s are burning clean; you might be referring to the exhaust coming off the preburner, that’s not used for vectoring at all it’s just dumped overboard...

yes, those were fascinating to watch. even see the the engine gimbal. I wonder if the engineers who designed that thing (control system) were biting their nails all the way into orbit as they knew all the places where things that could go wrong (I sure hope nobody makes a "sign" error).

Just like my creations in Kerbal Space Program...

You misspelled "Aral Desert" 😅 [ It isn't funny , but it's absurd so it's close enough ]😢

@@jonasfrito2 How to do dark humor: -Take an awful thing to happen -Exaggerate without measure so it loses it's horror and becomes grotesque -If applicable, write some music that doesn't fit it at all Not am exact quote, but pretty much the gist of something Georg Kreisler said.

yup I noticed that. " Hey, the Aral sea looks just like on my old school map!" It´s sad. No. Horrible, really.

Oh yes, vernier thrusters, still in use to this day, mainly on the R7/Soyuz Family of rockets.

:)

lmao

And NOAA should just get its space imagery from the Weather Channel (yes, someone in government actually said something to that effect...)

pff just go look at it on MS flight sim, even better.

You realize that Google Earth uses "Keyhole Markup Language" or KML for its file format.

That may be true. I wish the Whitehouse would stop trying to defund this.

There's an episode of NOVA about the MOL. Ep title is Astrospies. It's probably on YT or dailymotion, and it's definitely available on the seven seas

There's a conspiracy theory than communication satellites are actually manned by prison labour, because manual labour is cheaper than space-hardened automation. (And that is obvioiusly true; I mean that's why NASA still sent astronauts to the moon when the Soviets already had robots.)

I recall reading in "The Space Shuttle Decision" (volume I of the Smithsonian's history of the program) that the Air Force planned to launch the Shuttle from Vandenberg as basically a manned Corona satellite. Polar orbit, cargo bay full of cameras, land at Edwards with a ton of film. This may have been the reason for the Shuttle's large cross-range maneuvering requirement, which in turn led to the big wings (rather than the stubbier wings of the original proposal) and control surfaces in hot plasma during re-entry. Of course, with the Shuttle's delays and overruns (and the problems with the Vandeberg Shuttle launch pad), and the development of the KH-11 with electronic cameras, the mission was never (to our knowledge) flown.

@@ExtroniusAttributes The USAF is to blame for what happened to the Columbia?

Have they got a bucket of space Budweiser?

Did they have a separate bucket to bring back the bowl of lime wedges?

@@redDL89 They brought Caipirinhas as well.

I think this program, unless another PBS program, had other interesting things about Corona. There was concern about hydrazine leak between stages, one of the launch crew recalled about some guy who said he had a "calibrated nose" and would position him with a cherry picker crane to sniff for hydrazine between the stages. What stood out for me with this NOVA program is Sputnik was a stunt but with Corona they had to develop serious navigation and orbital mechanics calcuation techniques. Much of this was a first. No sense in flying spy satellites if you don't know exactly where they are and what attitude. And just about everything else flying into space needs accurate position and attitude.

There was some sketchy shit between publisher and developer. If i recall correctly, Take Two (publisher) cancelled the project and told the developers that they can continue working on it if they abandon their independent development studio and work for take two directly instead. If you are really interested in this, google it. This information is what i remember from when it was in the news, so i probably remember something wrong.

Yeah I saw it last year, next to a Titan IVB. The Hexagon satellite is so huge ! Next to it the Apollo capsule look like a tiny raft boat.

It isn't true that the government has satellites that can read a license plate from space, that's just a rumor that's been going around for decades. The current, still classified spy satellites are a few times bigger than Hubble and have a 2cm resolution. Smaller resolutions require increasingly huge telescopes.

Noticed the same thing and as I was watching that, my head started imagining Pac Man noises.

Yeah, it was wobbling all over the place. Thought we were going to see an incident.

To balance a 50-some ton pole on a forefinger is hard

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Great vid Scott. There's a declassified video on YT called "A Point in Time: The Corona Story."

Booster oscillation, a Thor hallmark

the side ones are verniers thrusters that are used to steer the rocket so they wobble a lot as they try to steer the ship a long the correct trajectory

Salt plugs with a lifespan of 2 days that would dissolve in the ocean letting saltwater in to destroy the film if left unrecovered for too long edited to fix an error

Would it have mattered if we had? Would have probably been defunded by now.

@@scottmanley Oof cia cant come back from that

Well you should no longer call yourself 'rocket scientist' then.. :D

could you please give the coordinates? - I'd like to see these crosses on google earth

Yeah I covered this a bit on my video about guns in space.

@@scottmanley I'll check it out. Once read a short story about it in Asimov's years ago.

I think he was talking about what he said before that. "...CIA used to bring Corona back from space."

​@@digi3218 no, its not about him "suggesting" anything bad, rather its about RU-vid algorithm that automatically demonitise anyone who say "Corona-virus". Not sure if it still does that tho... RU-vid didn't want people to profit off the fear of the pandemic (in the beginning).

@@xponen Both. On top of him saying Corona several dozen times, which will probably drive the RU-vid algorithm crazy, saying at the end "...the CIA used to bring Corona back from space" could also be interpretted by the algorithm as some major false information in today's world. Because you KNOW some cospiracy theorist, somewhere, has proposed this.

Probably because when the Manley'est of all men say "Fly safe", it usually sounds like a threat.

Yes, the Soviets did it in 1966

@@a10warthog4 OK, how? That was my question.