[FPSPACE] Time To Declassify Historical Imagery

[Nolan John R Aerospace]

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From: Dwayne Allen Day [mailto:wayneday@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:32 PM

"he spooks want .5 meter commercial systems and they will then buy the
imagery."

Actually the commercial companies applied for licenses for the higher
resolutions systems in hopes that they can sell it to the government. Their
origional business plans thought that the commercial market for 1 meter
imagery would take off once on orbit and that they could survive by
themselves, but now they complain that the government is not buying enough
imagery to keep them in business.