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jtice said:
I never see any images that can proove that though, always look like they get really fuzzy at the end, and are not near good enough to read a book.
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The Gov probably won't release anything like that without fuzzing it up first.
In the '60s-'70s whenever the Gov had a Sat or SR71 pic with info that they wanted to give away or publicize they would actually go to the trouble of overflying the target AGAIN and reshooting the pic from a platform that was not so sensitive, like a U2, and then fuzz that image down before releasing it.
To my knowledge, with very few exceptions, the only sat pics that have really been declassified are from CORONA, which were taken way back in 1960. That will give you an idea of how closley held the actual resolutions / capabilities of our recon cameras are -- regardless of the platform.