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>>2811962 (LB)

Nail-on-the-head

Also, 'Analog' is a shorthand description of the requirements of that recon satellite: "[The engineers/designers] don't get to use a computer or a single kilobyte of network bandwidth."

https://www.nga.mil/About/History/NGAinHistory/Pages/HEXAGON.aspx

https://www.space.com/12996-secret-spy-satellites-declassified-nro.html

https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_24/october_2013/features/spy_in_the_sky_the_kh-9_hexagon/

Reattached my graphic!

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