Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked.

The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite.

"This picture is so exquisite, and you see so much detail," says Jeffrey Lewis, who studies satellite imagery at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. "At first, I thought it must have been taken by a drone or something."

But aerospace experts quickly determined it was photographed using one of America's most prized intelligence assets: a classified spacecraft called USA 224 that is widely believed to be a multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.

Now, three years after Trump's tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has formally declassified the original image. The declassification, which came as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by NPR, followed a grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137...m-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
 
Hold shit now that's a camera that is out of this world! I wonder if the image of the moon landing will be crisp (that is if they haven't taken the picture).
 
AProudLefty said:
Hold shit now that's a camera that is out of this world! I wonder if the image of the moon landing will be crisp (that is if they haven't taken the picture).
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The moon landing was taken in high definition. I read that someone destroyed the videos, so they copied them from TV news videos.
 
guno said:
Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked.

The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite.

"This picture is so exquisite, and you see so much detail," says Jeffrey Lewis, who studies satellite imagery at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. "At first, I thought it must have been taken by a drone or something."

But aerospace experts quickly determined it was photographed using one of America's most prized intelligence assets: a classified spacecraft called USA 224 that is widely believed to be a multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.

Now, three years after Trump's tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has formally declassified the original image. The declassification, which came as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by NPR, followed a grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137...m-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
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And? Who fucking cares?
 
Nordberg said:
The moon landing was taken in high definition. I read that someone destroyed the videos, so they copied them from TV news videos.
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Videotape from the late 1960s doesn't compare to the digital photography 50 years later.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Videotape from the late 1960s doesn't compare to the digital photography 50 years later.
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You'd be surprised. They released videos a few years that were never seen before. It used some kind of cameras and films which I forgot the name of. When you see them for the first time, you'd swear they were created recently.
 
guno said:
Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked.

The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite.

"This picture is so exquisite, and you see so much detail," says Jeffrey Lewis, who studies satellite imagery at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. "At first, I thought it must have been taken by a drone or something."

But aerospace experts quickly determined it was photographed using one of America's most prized intelligence assets: a classified spacecraft called USA 224 that is widely believed to be a multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.

Now, three years after Trump's tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has formally declassified the original image. The declassification, which came as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by NPR, followed a grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137...m-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
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the president de facto declassified it when he tweeted it.

its a presidential power.

:truestory:

now go stuf.
 
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