From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #63 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 15 November 1993 Volume 04 : Number 063 In this issue: NBC News - CIA Photos Re: NBC News - CIA Photos See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 21:49:23 -0500 Subject: NBC News - CIA Photos This isn't exactally skunk-works related, however, did anyone see NBC news Friday night? They had a short story that said the CIA would start selling some of there satalite photos. I guess they are trying to compete with SPOT and prevent anyone else from starting similar companies. They wouldn't make a lot of money, but with the CIA as competition, few new companies would start up. At least that is what the report said. The CIA wouldn't sell photos to `undesirable' groups that might use the photos against us and they wouldn't sell the best they had. NBC also showed a photo that had been leaked to the press some time back. The photo was taken by a satalite over 200 miles up and had better than 1 FOOT resolution. It was of some ship yard. Pretty impressive. It makes you wonder about the photos we haven't seen. Brent L. Bates Phone:(804) 864-2854 M.S. 361 FAX:(804) 864-8469 NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or B.L.BATES@larc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ From: dadams@netcom.com (Dean Adams) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 21:48:43 -0800 Subject: Re: NBC News - CIA Photos "Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB" says: > This isn't exactally skunk-works related, however, did anyone see >NBC news Friday night? They had a short story that said the CIA would >start selling some of there satalite photos. I guess they are trying >to compete with SPOT and prevent anyone else from starting similar >companies. They wouldn't make a lot of money, but with the CIA as >competition, few new companies would start up. At least that is what >the report said. Well... that isn't exactly the situation here. Whats happening is that the CIA decided to lift its opposition to *companies* in this country from marketing "spy satellite" systems/images. Somewhat more Skunk-related is that Lockheed Missile & Space Co. was the primary driving force behind this ruling. As one of the main builders of classified reconnaissance satellites, they have been trying to get clearance for commercial sales of these services for some time now. Not long ago Kuwait was trying to make a deal with Lockeed for this very sort of work. > NBC also showed a photo that had been leaked to the press some time > back. The photo was taken by a satalite over 200 miles up and had > better than 1 FOOT resolution. It was of some ship yard. That is an old one. A KH-11 photo of a Soviet carrier under construction. >Pretty impressive. It makes you wonder about the photos we haven't seen. Plenty, i'm sure! - -dean ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #63 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).