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The purpose if this rear is to amnia. the regalreemats for • satellite

photogrophie reccenaisseaes system, to esseine our preseat proposed. BMWS

photo sataLlito system and to propsmo a new system yid& w believe will

sore closely soot our regsdramats and will previa* sere growth potential.

During ths nest by yews it is going to be Wily diesizable that the

Visited States be able Issaniust phstagrephis avemmialsasase tram satellites.

The mod ter informatisa coLlocted is this itakien All be deters:1mM ion

by the servant laweledge if the area to be observed. mod by

espehliitles of the slassreatisa egsLyneat.

/. Use if the 11Sf

The present SAMS phetegrephis programvie three psyleads.

The 18-1 has a Pi ties/ length camera shish ip.ve the passibility at

remodel's" objects MI ea side. it apicture 100 silos agues*.

This picture is transmitted I. the • yr a facsimile system. The 2-2

package has a $6 9 focal leas* sad • Actor* 17 miles agues, la

which a 50' ob iso be This laSsrmation is also traessitted

electronically to gramel. 2-5 package tables • platers do miles Is

width is ekidi a 12 (Nest be recessised. This material is brought

bask by a mover, fres the satellite. With perfect veather it

valid Ulu 71-2 istealts fd:tr days to sows the armlet alas. with

a mattiplicity of satellites operating slaultemeously this tine cam be

eatdoss. if the it is sot desired as • meats of cowering the satire

Ihnimiss Ira saes, bat is plumed insteat to be used to look at specific

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targets, a shorter time is needed. des 1-2 satellite will requires is

gollosok, twain days to get • picture of iloserrei sees digs to get •

picture of Norosibirek. The 14 wafts Ii31 cover tba satire likawaslas

lard saes la about twisty dei re if there are no elouds.

Nertuirseasts 

Pros ocasideredlan of technical capabilities of these payloads,

it is rqsarent that the 31-2 system .senrot be who to provide photographic

latorastion about say particular spot is the lariat Was oftener than

ones every few days. Iwerver. it is doribttel that even this !resume?

Pill be required tor viewing objects larger that 50' OR side * "

system is also l000pelo of giving complete coverage at may frequency

grostor than once every tinv aonthe Wass a aultiplicity of satellites

are used. The 1-1 system can Ow camplate coverage with greater !mummy

but at • seek lamer resolation. The 1.5 spotter eau also en eaglets

coverage at a greater frequency. Me believe there Is a seed for ca plate

coverage at a reselldrdon equivalent to the 1-2, at a trequeasy whoa

awe every 6 maths. ea 1. 5 Egratira, ea the other Lard, produces more

notarial thee is probably needed for basic coverage.

NWE Waal lerealresents and • Proposal

Ile believe that there is ao latalligease ass& satisfied by the

1-2 which asset be batter satisfied by a ameh simpler recovery system.

lie propos that the animate operational symtea eassist of recovery

packages only:

(1) To be a air systole with a penoraida camera to gin photographs

of a lid aLlimelde swath with a recognisability of 50' objects. A

'Urea satellita would gin eamplato coverage is a tow days. Ilnei a

satellite sight be pat late orbit oars every *our to sin mouths.

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(a) lbw Mates zesolattea vaig *La ipbotograghs ate* as Motu&

over speelfts areas oesseggihr. krLi. Puu-dir-c9

Vs propose that the prosessIalt of smh Iketearge

habe sarri44

argalainatialal system tip► lid* photographs are processed

today. Outth sa orsr altatil. pi would te view seek less ogp nasivo then

the ow eurreatly impose& sal will provtie a lobe of seek hien, Satanware value the the onaveot plea. It will be flocale as that ow Maas

for "Woad. ma be easily laeorporatei tato the tastes. the eurseat

operatiatal plea is sorplately Softaidltla.

3. MEM

1. There are two tests prep sot *Leh we we ealfreatel with Ways

(1) Ilhat Wel of satellite photeirepida resonaisseeee system

should. the Vatted States hawse

(a) Wei kiwi of erataisetiead. system should Wale the

prowesslag of results!

At the 'resent Moe the loathes& Airmail CorpereSisa is trying to

dewlap a satellite stratus whisk win be earehle of wrathy; twelve

slimaltoseees photepophie resersieseare satellites. !hese are to sera

the 2-2 paylsei. Seek a system noires a great deal of growl egolpseat

for a seesessfel operatics. Deem* of the tbsost of the pletures and

teems, of the prograntai sooliesticos of the sat lutes, a Tom oompli•

oiled data ks nfiliag teeheleue has to be weed. Ifte use yeses operatisa

of the spites the east *stilettos sea to

A yea analt alaglar palm eta de all the Wags aldali 114 *lea do. lha

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11.111 "um that 1-2 Ms gram is this fashion sow to be that sane yours

ago it was not fat possible to bring perfleeds bask teas osbit. This is

ars a tesbnique stitch es is carried sat without question awl which is a

ass meguiranent at the preset tine is the Odle& States. An 1-2 wane

Involving fly satellites and too reed-out stations provides ao cseepetitims

tor • aloes recovery astatine. • ore fats 2-11 spates of arty satellites

provides compotities sot is are negtects soot, somplasity aied

2.

!here are tem Winne* problems to itch the X-2 is dedisateds

(1) !he proldeet of coverlag the entire Ilhlrasisa laud sees.

(a) Otis prattles of swiss a pertieuler tarot.

geseral calculation of the °overage provided by • read-out system

lavaboes the amber of growl statism; the basibeldtli of the read-out system;

the uestber, aid reeolistioa. The problem of 'liming a 'orbicular spot

requires consideration also of the width of the swath *Leh can be comma

an one &Altai pass. Consider first the 11.4 with its 17 adloweide platen

is • 300 ails =bit. To give the oxbow ease, lot as melee several tales

assueptimas: 1) the weather is posttest; 2) the *erbium part of lhiesia is

covered with ineell‘et la the ulster; 3) the 11-2 satellite cam be tilted so

that the ground aisdag point sea is plasma emyehersikAisliesen sueoessive

grand tracks. (This last assimptios is la ppostast lissom of IssO1101M110•11.8

1.11. as the earth rotates, the satellite grand treake sleet ropiest);

lbseryghlag the satellite &seaside cal be reed-oat over the mated States

tire the data Usk.

At 330 north latitude with a polar orbit the diatoms between

suesessive graved teaches is 1350 statute silos. ♦ single X-2 psylosi with
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its 17 mile vide picture woad thus tabs kAr. or *is* days tor ealliants

covers." ' It new additional satellites vase Wet, the coverage thee coal&

be cut dom. See shealtimeous satellites voted reduce the coverage time to

eight digs.

Let's masider aext the readout Unite/plan tor the 2-2 whew.

leo tracking and acquisition stations can hesedle approriantely MO linear

miles/day. This extends the time for covers. by a alitgia bird to memklatALY 500 days.

She weather problem is worse because of the fact that loather

tends to correlate from day to day. Secause of this, even vith 12

satellites, ve can probably never got 100 coverage. If me assumes that

501i of the Oat is alums covered by clouds, then In 250 days tie* 1-2

bird vith 2 MA Matinee meld cover 50$ of the lead mass. In this case

the bandwidth limitation is divided by two because it is assumed the

satellite could be turned oft sometime if bad weather arises.

Is practice, a single X-2 package Gould also probably never cover

the Soviet Won because it mum% be tilted to till the gap between

different grated tracks. Rosa it such tilting were technically feasible,

it would be andiesirabla became of the extreme obliquity of the resulting

photographs. She mon to the horizontal at the extras, would. be 21° wed

the recognisability would berme 137' 4, She arctic might would also inc..

acme restrictions on the tine at thigh complate coverage could be obtained..

Consider nest the problem of looking at a particular target. With

the X-2 package, it we amble the same assimption as in the coverage case,

the target eau be seen ones a day by one 1-2 payload. la this ease the

effect of vaatbar is protomd. She folloving section shows the weather

problem for particular targets.
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3. 1-1 System

Becton of its lot resolution the 321 ones vill only recosalee

*Into shish are sere the 250' ca a sift. kaordlian it eamsot be

reasonably considered tor a point target serveillmece nissios. Certainly,

emu 250' ea a side are going to change character very slatl, ► . la its

present tout the 1-1 is being fon primarilg as a cat tialletalleest

packagm.

The 1-1 tabu a 300 mile-vide picture and can thus give coverage

Inch more quickly than 1-2. With the assogstion of perfect vestioreami.

sualiett in Northers Russia, the 00V0211.11 would be complete in toasty

days. With smother seuideration it would take 100 dews to get 9511

of Russia covered. Then is no reedout limitation here as is 1-2.

C. /1101011ALS

It has been prorated that the failure of the 1-2 system to provide

coverage be notified by adding SA packages. Vs wad like to propose

instead that a ear users be substituted tor 1ml, tenon at its low

resolution. Ile also propose that the an camera have a wider swath

and thus provide coverage is a shorter tine than 1-1. This an system

vill have Ave times the resolution, speedier coverage and less cost.

lie believe that this new system vill coo mach closer also to until*

a a•tiosal reguirenent than the =rant 1-2 plan.

This system should be • recovery sines is order to get rid of

the beedvitith limitation mosticeed. above. With a 150 ails-vide swath

from a panoresi.o amen and with perfect weather sampan coverage could

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be obtalaed vith ese 'hied la *out tea dqs. With neetheriOnaeld

b. carrel is lb °Ma at lelwalI 75 SA 23 digs. This should be

aa =AS boosted wasn't so OS to carry the filo load required tor

such coverage. Tr system should hare 50' recognisability Ai* is

the sr as the 2-2.

We mull Jibe to propose that the errs* 2-2 program be emplately

divorced tram soy isdalligure lopliestions sod that it be rationed

only for the purpose of loaralag about the protasis of developing this

type of tacsioille esuipor ►t.

V. propose that the 2-2 program rase alter tour shots.

Is place of the 'ordains tour eurseatly progiampswi 2-2 flis)ots,

se propose a aeries of arias* lavolving as Mali boosted emote

with a recoverable poeserie cows cepible of givies 50' recesolsoo

bility. The lope* of such a system should be profousd ea Moe",

Subsystem I, Oral* Data Deccostructiao Wedln wito does Ind DIM 141221,

sod should be cassidereldg less ogrusive than the cost of the wrier

Veto'.

D. ISOM=

It is curreatky plan* to process satellite recoratelarace photosnatty at the Strategic his Oared owl to cestral the entire colloid:les

system by SPA. It is necessary to ursine SAC'. Satelligere steeds to

see it it In proper for soy of these trotter to be located at SAC

ileadgeerters or era 'odes eastrol of WC.
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mc has two istelligesee problem; 44 a pre-strihe groblem, sad

(2) a post-strihe problem. la the pre .stribm situatios• the 1$ exists

as it does today. Intellgonce facilities In the Vatted States are

mach grestorthea esy whisk mild be pulled together by SAC at its

fleadquarters. There are brlahter saa/fate In the rut of the °laud

States and am* analysts In the rest of the Veiled States than there

are at VAC. BM certainly hes ao aemi of ang rot data. It has

requirements ter latcomatios about the Movie! Unica, thick it mots

tor planning its operations. It seeds taripting data. st needs

data am lanet latereept espebilities sad its air defense. I feel

the limited States is espeils of doing a superb job of pmeoeldiag SAC

with this latomestion. I believe SW shooldi be able to get all it

needs toms the anal litotes mad should have the best. I think it

is importent tor the eammaity to be told hoe test it can solve the

problems of SAC. Is the pm-strike envirommat, telephoto and %simmers* lira ere all operating sod the probin of sommuniestiss with g

SAC is easy.

in a post-strihe situation, SAC is at var. TM limited States Is

devastated. VAC certalaly seeds latelLtipeace sled In this environment

SAC vill need its ova capshilities. I feel ve used to Maw *at is

the post-striker requiremeat tor SAC inteLlIgence. name SAC is a

prime target there should probably be a minimaof egatmemt at MC

for the post-strihe problem. The Intelligence system In this ondronnest should probably be extremely simple because of the IICSAISSAIR which

is lihely to rola. As prometly conceieed, MOB is primarily a

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3m-str1ke device end skould probably 'be aesloked to sone joint MelWpm. .ter. IldA eenter abed* be in esposien Of me of the

*doting pboto-Intellioneo miters. Its outset should go to all

eenemers of latellImenee latoneettem.

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