Corona, every mention

Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired May 30, 2023 · 19 mentions

• ▶ 1:31:53 David Rosenthal So, the first program was called Corona.
• ▶ 1:32:39 Ben Gilbert But on the declassification website, which we'll link to in sources, you can see a bunch of the pictures that the Corona satellite took, including of the Pentagon.
• ▶ 1:32:57 David Rosenthal Ok, so the name Corona.
• ▶ 1:32:59 David Rosenthal There are conflicting stories of whether it comes from the Corona typewriter or the Corona type of cigar that apparently the, uh,
• ▶ 1:33:25 David Rosenthal While everything else happening in space was, you know, research vessels, this first corona satellite had a camera system on it.
• ▶ 1:33:59 David Rosenthal And more importantly, the corona system could take photos anywhere in the world on its orbit, and if you had multiple of these satellites up there, you know, you could pretty much blanket the Earth, or at least everywhere you cared about,…
• ▶ 1:34:25 David Rosenthal The very first corona mission.
• ▶ 1:38:32 David Rosenthal So, all told, the Corona Satellite Program and LMSC also designed the Agena rocket, which was the
• ▶ 1:38:39 David Rosenthal Kind of upper stage rocket booster that the Corona satellite and other satellites, future satellites attached to.
• ▶ 1:38:55 David Rosenthal So that system of the Corona and the Agena was the first spacecraft in history to do all of the following things.
• ▶ 1:40:10 David Rosenthal So, corona would then lead to three follow-up programs that we know of.
• ▶ 1:40:33 David Rosenthal That was Corona, just period.
• ▶ 1:40:38 David Rosenthal Corona proved that.
• ▶ 1:40:52 David Rosenthal So let's talk about all of these Corona.
• ▶ 1:41:03 David Rosenthal In 1963, only three years after the first corona satellite goes up, LMSC and the government launch the Gambit program.
• ▶ 1:44:05 Ben Gilbert Do you know, I think it was the codename, the original name for the Corona program.
• ▶ 1:51:06 David Rosenthal So the stats I have, this is from beyond the horizons, which also is where a lot of the story, especially of Corona came from during the 12 year period from 1960 when Corona first launched to 1972.
• ▶ 2:17:37 David Rosenthal And this is not a challenge that LMSC, at least with the corona project, had to face, because nobody knew about it.
• ▶ 3:03:04 David Rosenthal We need the corona program.