NASA DISCOVERER SATELLITE FILM C.I.A. CORONA SPY SATELLITE PROGRAM PAYLOAD ORBITAL RECOVERY 18044
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This color educational film is about the DISCOVERER Satellites, also known as CORONA. It was produced by Lockheed Missiles & Space Division. (The first dozen or more CORONA satellites and their launches were cloaked with disinformation as being part of a space technology development program called the DISCOVERER program.) This film was produced in 1960. The Discoverer Satellite #13 was launched from Vandenberg AFB on August 10, 1960. The Discoverer Satellite #14 was launched eight days later.
Opening titles from Vandenberg AFB, title: DISCOVERER SATELLITE, ORBITAL RECOVERY (:10-:31). An Orbital rocket, the Discoverer Satellite #13 is getting ready to launch. The rocket is being worked on. Pieces of the satellite are being lowered and worked on. The rocket is being pieced together and filled with fuel. The payload is being placed on the rocket (:32-3:29). Booster, satellite and payload, after being put together is raised slowly from multiple angles. Control room engineer talks on a radio. Control room employees at work (3:30-5:00). Exterior of the US Air Force Satellite Test Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Men in the control room. A giant radar. Close on the radar. A ship with a telemetry receiver. In Alaska is a tracking station as is in Hawaii. Men on their radios in the control room. The countdown has begun. The Agena rocket is ready for liftoff. Fuel ignites and liftoff has occurred. The rocket sails high into the sky (5:01-7:34). Radar tracks the rocket. The separation occurs. The satellite is in orbit and it turns around. Satellite test center is analyzing and everything is proceeding as planned. Men plot on a board. Aerial recovery planes are at the ready. C-119 planes are ready for takeoff. The planes takes off. In the cockpit of the C-119. Satellite in orbit. The hurtling capsule is coming back to earth - we see this occur and the parachute deploy from the capsule's own camera (7:35-10:45). C-119 are ready to recover the capsule. The capsule floats in the sea. Helicopter hovers over the capsule as men jump into the sea to recover it. The helicopter brings up the capsule with a wire cord (10:46-11:56). The recovery team places the capsule into a special container. At the White House, in the past when the capsule was used and opened, an American flag was removed from it and handed to President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower. Eight days later, the rocket was fired again, Discoverer #14. The rocket launches and heads for space. C-119 planes in the air. Aerial recovery was performed again successfully. The capsule was recovered with a wire (11:57-13:26). End credits (13:27-13:42).
The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The Corona satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), the People's Republic of China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972. CORONA started under the name "DISCOVERER" as part of the WS-117L satellite reconnaissance and protection program of the US Air Force in 1956, based on recommendations and designs from the RAND Corporation. Corona satellites used special 70 millimeter film with a 24-inch (610 mm) focal length camera. Film was retrieved from orbit via a reentry capsule (nicknamed "film bucket"), designed by General Electric, which separated and fell to Earth. After reentry was over, the heat shield surrounding the vehicle was jettisoned at 60,000 feet (18 km) and parachutes deployed. The capsule was intended to be caught in mid-air by a passing airplane towing an airborne claw which would then winch it aboard, or it could land at sea. A salt plug in the base would dissolve after two days, allowing the capsule to sink if it was not picked up by the U.S. Navy. After Reuters reported on a reentry vehicle's accidental landing and discovery by Venezuelan farmers in 1964, capsules were no longer labeled "SECRET" but offered a reward in eight languages for their return to the United States. Beginning with flight #69, a two-capsule system was employed. This also allowed the satellite to go into passive (or "zombie") mode, shutting down for as many as 21 days before taking images again. Beginning in 1963, another improvement was "Lifeboat", a battery-powered system that allowed for ejection and recovery of the capsule in case power failed. The film was processed at Eastman Kodak's Hawkeye facility in Rochester, New York.
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I love these old DOD and NASA space films:).
I remember few years ago talking with someone who said he worked on the Discoverer program, I said "you mean Corona?' which he chuckled. There was a documentary about this program which in general Sputnik was a stunt but Corona had to develop technologies and techniques to make satellites useful tools. Orbital predictions, orientation, re-entry not only for recon sats but for weather, communications.
The guy on the cherry picker reminded me of in that same documentary (PBS? it's probably on youtube someplace) where launch vehicle blew up at 1st and 2nd staging, it was most likely residual hydrazine lingering between the stages. One of the old guys they interviewed mentioned someone said he had a calibrated nose. So they used the cherry picker to position him so he can stick his head between the 1st and 2nd stages and smell if there is any hydrazine. He also commented, "these days OSHA would scream!"
I also think about the scientists that thought their experiments were going into space, had to put up with usual USAF bureaucracy getting their payloads cleared but of course their payloads never left the building at VAFB.
Loved that star motion in the background of the vehicle, just like Star Trek TOS. Captures the attitude of the day when 200 miles was WAY OUT IN OUTER SPACE. These days that's just a short walk to the corner drugstore.
Great demonstration of gimbaling 7:00
Remember watching these films in school
I enjoy these old spy videos disguise as nasa documentaries. Awesome video, as always 👍
4:59 so we're not gonna talk about the giant teddy bear in the launch control room...
Someone call SCP Foundation
Didn't even notice watching it the first time
Please address the Launch Control Manager by his name...Mr. Cuddles
@@chrisyu98 Would that be Mr., or Chief?
Lol, I wasn't expecting S. C. P. followers here lmao, TIP: Don't blink if you're eating peanuts.
Mark yeah that's right!!!!!!
You can tell this is an early Discoverer spacecraft as it is using the original Agena A second-stage.
"following mating, it is erected..." Doesn't it usually go the other way around? ;>)
Beavis and Butthead
So far out of 558 views, only 4 flat earth believers have been by to show their disapproval.
Sad too, because theirs is a futile science. Devoid of fact-- long in untruths. Sounds familiar.
usus
This was obviously one of the early chemtrails from space projects. Look at the name, it's become quite the success in 2020, obviously.
@@jefferyrightmire9520 So what if all it takes is looking down two wells at the same time to measure the circumference, it looks flat from my perspective, it is flat.
Cold War Golden Age stuff! At 1:40 narrator says 10 out of 15 orbital injections were successful. Didn't Meatloaf also determine that 2 out of 3 ain't bad? I guess I'd never seen a Flying Boxcar in profile. Excellent cargo plane for the time but slap the designers ugly.
1.) I want you.
2.) I need you.
3.) Failed to achieve orbit.
What is a Victory Ship?????????? 11:05.
BB: Victory ships were a standardized class design of cargo ships built during WWII. Their standard design, equipment and modular construction allowed most efficient use of materials and fast construction. The ship shown is a USNS, United States Naval Ship with civilian mariner crew and a small supplement of naval personnel.
@Stevo Reno yes, along with the Glomar Explorer (another CIA program where cover story was great promise but in reality nothing like its cover story). In the 1990s I took a photo from my car while driving on the bridge. That ship is gone now, I think there is just a few left. A video crew went through one of those ships, not sure why they saved them as were totally useless for all the refurbishment needed. They also showed all kinds of nasty oozing liquids, chipping lead paint, decaying panels. the whole vessel was really yucky.
Better lower that gain in the feed back loop to the engine gimbals, whoooaaaa......
Boeing Planebreaker you mean those roll jets? Yep, methinks the platform just discovered what happens when the main engine thrust vector doesn’t quite go where it’s supposed to....more shims!
Boeing Planebreaker
Looks like they tuned it up for the second launch.
But yeah, they really got their money's worth from those gimbals on the first launch! 😄👏
Shakin' that booty
Limit cycling due to hysteresis in the hydraulic system.
Neil, Buzz, Collins this is out most successful space launch vehicle, The Atlas-Agena, with 10 successful launches out of 15.
OK No problem sir, we have 66% chance of a surviving the launch then.
Ermmm, not quite we intend to put you in a new prototype called the Saturn V
don't worry we intend to test it 2 times before we put you guys inside.
OK No problem sir, how about re-entry ?
don't worry about that, if we get that far, I'm sure it will be fine.
any chance we can be gifted Corvettes or Thunderbirds before we go on the mission, just in case..
Yeah sure, we can arrange that.
Isn't this how The Blob got started? (1988 version.)
They open the capsule and... The Blob comes gushing out...
And The Blob is... hungry...
Best place to hide something, in plane site
Robert z can you hide a plane in plain site?
The Spain in plain falls mainly on the rain.
And should it land in the Arctic by mistake . . . the USS Tigerfish will go and get it. ;-)
Corona huh
before digital photography
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I’m thinking maybe a cat?
You know someone wants attention badly when they use a heap of random words as a video title.
Umbrella ocean shade cloth tea towel, & car dish repeat socks tumble dry!! There!!!
Noice