Comments on: The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 15: Agena – The Secret Space Truck, Ferret’s and Stanford http://steveblank.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-part-15-agena-the-secret-space-truck-ferret%e2%80%99s-and-stanford/ Entrepreneurship and Conservation Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anthony See http://steveblank.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-part-15-agena-the-secret-space-truck-ferret%e2%80%99s-and-stanford/#comment-8913 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:59:02 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=5135#comment-8913 What about the manned space develop programs for spying from space (Russian & US) with high resolution film and optics that occured about 1962/63 in tandem with these programs. Were they cancelled on the success of these satellite programs?

]]> By: George Nickel http://steveblank.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-part-15-agena-the-secret-space-truck-ferret%e2%80%99s-and-stanford/#comment-3730 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:33:32 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=5135#comment-3730 I met the guy from Lockheed who claims to have been the initial designer of the Agena, but cannot now remember his name. I used to launch them on Atlases from VAFB, and we had fun discussing its origins. Do you know who this might have been?

]]> By: steve blank http://steveblank.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-part-15-agena-the-secret-space-truck-ferret%e2%80%99s-and-stanford/#comment-3229 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:06:26 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=5135#comment-3229 Someone was kind enough to remind me that the Aft Rack Packages were pretuned simple receivers. The ELINT flights on the periphery of the Soviet Union told them what frequencies to look for.

The Soviet radars were geolocated (to a rough location) by knowing the position of the satellite when a radar pulse was received. Overhead photos from CORONA helped find the exact location.

steve

]]> By: Matt Merriam http://steveblank.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-part-15-agena-the-secret-space-truck-ferret%e2%80%99s-and-stanford/#comment-3167 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:07 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=5135#comment-3167 Great stuff … how quick we all forget

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