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Lockheed Martin

Acquired

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The Amazing Story of the Space Telescope

Over 800,000 images would be taken by these satellites over the course of the program. They had retro rockets built into the film canisters to reaccelerate out of the orbit. And move it down to go into the atmosphere. It is in a custom designed canister called the film bucket that General Electric designed. The heat shield that surrounds the vehicle is jettisoned at around 60,000 feet.

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