Comments on: Giant, Sophisticated, Disposable https://www.isegoria.net/2010/01/giant-sophisticated-disposable/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2010/01/giant-sophisticated-disposable/comment-page-1/#comment-3066577 Graham Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:06:50 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4692#comment-3066577 I think, perhaps, I learned about recoverable capsules reading something in the 1980s, so presumably it had become super old tech and declassified before that.

I still can’t decide if that’s laughably primitive or just about the coolest, hot sh*t idea ever invented. Space-based cameras shooting completed film back to earth for recovery. Amazing.

Now I’m curious how long it took to complete a roll, how many cameras were on each satellite, and how long that meant the service life of each satellite was. And did they then do a controlled burn or just leave them all. Or some.

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