Phil Pressel

[@michaelferrarasr4658]

Proud to be a part of this

[@chickneasarthur39]

Hello Phil enjoyed your video. Seeing all the great stuff we had worked on together. Especially S cubed . Those were great days and we did amazing things for our country together. Stay well.

[@RicardoNunoSilva]

Outstanding engineering! Congratulations to Mr. Pressel and his former team at Perkin-Elmer for building such a remarkable tool for peace.

[@BudLarsenjr]

What an amazing man! Best wishes to Phil and all of his colleagues who made the KH-9 and all of its detail possible.

[@mattbuchanan2580]

Amazing...this type of presentation and video are exactly what my brain have been searching for. Thank you!

[@chevere1949]

Very informitive. I was assigned as a logistics NCO in Hawaii and hated to see the program end. But progress is like that.

[@mpetry912]

A really fantastic video, I have shared it with many friends. Thanks for putting this up and letting Phil tell his amazing story ! "liked" !

[@whirledpeas3477]

Undeniably the finest engineering of its time

[@7STB7]

Is this satellite still on display or just for this exhibition some years ago? Also is it fully functional or just a mock-up?

[@matthewgrissop9408]

Outstanding information and work very very nice

[@agena6594]

I sometimes think they might be looking at using film again. "Spike" on NROL-61 was always being talked about like an actual thing that was being sent into space and brought back to "report to the NRO" as depicted in their odd comic books. On the NROL-26 there is a shooting star depicted but it has an arc to it,which usually has something to do with a reentry vehicle. Film still holds its weight in gold. It does things that they still haven't figured out how to do with digital sensors. A similar shooting star can be seen on the patch of the Special Projects Flight Test Squadron patch.

[@mrjpb23]

I love this guy.

[@nde8101]

Boxy Brown he's a good guy, I've met him, he's got an interesting life story

[@SuzyGarcia324]

this man is a national treasure :)

[@USAFmuseum]

Yes indeed!!!

[@-danR]

@@USAFmuseum legend

[@generalripper1964]

So, do you have the follow on satellite on display? The photos I saw in the Army during the Cold War were absolutely crazy in their detail. ;-)

[@USAFmuseum]

We have the GAMBIT 1 KH-7, GAMBIT 3 KH-8, HEXAGON KH-9, Northrop Grumman Defense Support Program (DSP) Satellite(Replica),and Teal Ruby. More info here: www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/MuseumExhibits/SpaceGallery.aspx

[@generalripper1964]

Thank you. :-)

[@floydswydan6507]

Excellent story. Was everything that was tested on earth work as expected in space? Or was there trial and error?

[@thelovertunisia]

Is that a keyhole satellite? The one like hubble.

[@angusmatheson8906]

*ALL* US reconnaissance satellites since CORONA have the "keyhole" designator. Shortened to KH.

[@rajbanwait325]

"Can You Here Me in The Back"...😂😂😂😂

[@thelovertunisia]

I have heard they gave NASA some of the unused ones? could they be redesigned as a space telescope?

[@eatcommies1375]

👍👏❤️🇺🇸💪

[@theapollodetectives]

If film emulsifies in the vacuum of space, would someone like to tell me how Apollo took all of those lunar surface photos in the vacuum of space?

[@LouC518]

Basically the flux capacitor will emulsify the film into millions of dollars that these type of agencies rob from the american people. Then these people retire with lots of $$$. Does that anwser your question? You're welcome👍👍. Lmao.

[@LouC518]

The flux capacitor fixes the emulsion. Then the american people lose millions of dollars by companies making these satellites that c130's catch and retrieve. Then all the people at these compankes retire sith lots of $$$

[@LouC518]

A flux capacitor fixes the film.

[@theapollodetectives]

@@LouC518 Or you could just slap a NASA sticker on the film. That usually makes the evidence vanish just like the 13.5K rolls of telemetry tape.

[@metocvideo]

Shill Slayers II Speaking as someone who has been involved with all types of film since the 1960’s, you have an extremely good point. I think Kodak may have experimented with special 70mm Color film for the Apollo program, coated onto thinner Estar base so that the 70mm Hasselblad magazines could hold more film frames, but I do not think it was ever used in space, because the original transparencies I have seen have normal edge markings. I think that the film was not exposed to vacuum long enough to gas out the moisture in the emulsion, but I can’t figure out how the film would survive the extreme heat and cold when on the surface of the moon.

[@johnhopkins6260]

While an impressive feat of engineering, for the time, that contributed critically to the American victory of the Cold War... the technology of billions of digital pixels vs. analog number of particles on the film has now achieved, at the least, parity. Imagine turning the likes of the Hubble Telescope toward the surface of planet earth.... "real time" being a keyword.