Monday, December 16, 2013
"Darpa's Giant Folding Spy Satellite Will Dwarf All Other Space Telescopes"
Humans dream up some amazing things...
At Wired.com, Allen McDuffee reports on this one:
"Launched as a tightly packed cluster of petals 20 feet in diameter, MOIRE stretches to 68 feet across once it reaches 22,000 miles above the earth. From orbit, MOIRE could view approximately 40 percent of the earth’s surface at once while recording high resolution images and video, making it the ultimate spying satellite (Darpa notes that it could also be beneficial in weather forecasting and disaster response)."
