258 – The History and Technology of Spy Satellites

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Guest: David Baker Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Alexander Grote

In this episode we speak with David Baker, who wrote a fascinating book about spy satellites. We cover the political and military context that drove their development, their (known and suspected) capabilities, methods of recovering the images, as well as typical orbits and the sartellites’ ability to change that orbit for quick repositioning.

Here are the videos I mentioned on the show:

00:01:53.000 Introduction of David Baker 00:08:53.000 Spy Satellites 00:29:23.000 Instrumentation on Satellite 00:56:15.000 Technical Details 01:49:03.000 Spy Satellites Today 01:59:25.000 Outro