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Lockheed Martin
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The Corona Satellite
The first Corona satellite went up in August 1960. It was able to photograph any ground location that it passed over at a resolution as low as five feet from space. If you had multiple of these satellites up there, you could pretty much blanket the earth or at least everywhere you cared aboutpretty quickly. Unbelievable. There's a crazy stat. The very first Corona mission ... produced greater photo coverage of the Soviet Union than all of the previous U2 flights combined five years of operating the U2 program.
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