All I can say is, they had to figure alot of this stuff out when they started creating spy satellites. Im fairly certain I learned about some of this in highschool history.
Interesting blurb about how the russians used american spy film for their moon sat.
"Let's get it done” ... And I had big doubts about the photographic film that we used - "Type 17" (manufactured by Shostka). For aerial photography it was quite suitable, but for the cosmos a much greater sensitivity was required. I was also afraid that the film would be strongly veiled due to cosmic radiation. What to do? Again bow to NIKFI, with which we were so much in disagreement? Impossible. And time was running out. And then a completely crazy thought occurred to me ...
The photographic equipment used for the balloons was of no interest, but the film, created for shooting from high altitudes, was good: highly sensitive and strongly tanned, with a solution temperature of up to 50 degrees. Just what we need ... And we had it, as they say, buried ... This film I decided to use in the "Yenisei".
We did not know anything. What about the spacecraft? Did the system "lunar" orientation work? Did the camera work? We just waited. And in such moments something always happens. The director of the Crimean Observatory Andrei Borisovich Severny came and said: "What are you waiting for? I figured ... We will not get any picture. To protect the film from cosmic radiation requires a half-meter layer of lead. How many do you have? 5 millimeters. What?!. "It just does not suffice ...
And the fact that we "photographed" the opposite side of the Moon with an American film that was sent to our country with purely spying goals, I told my closest associates only many years later, long after the untimely death of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. In fifteen years. The abbreviation “AB”, I think, is not necessary to decipher. Of course, this is the "American Balloons". Odessites never lose their sense of humor. Starting with "Vostok" I acted as the chief designer of space television systems. Of course, I perfectly remember the immortal flight of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, and everything that followed. But this is another story and completely different adventures.”
If they are faking it, the entire world is in on it.
All I can say is, they had to figure alot of this stuff out when they started creating spy satellites. Im fairly certain I learned about some of this in highschool history.
Interesting blurb about how the russians used american spy film for their moon sat.
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/luna3/SpyBalloon.htm
If they are faking it, the entire world is in on it.