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Hotel Mars Episode N.

I'm John Batchel with my colleague and co-host David Livingston of the space show, Dr. Space himself.

And we're going back in time, thanks to Anatoly Zach, who keeps the Russian space web,

which I recommend a subscription site.

It is the present and history of Russ Cosmos. We're now

talking about spy satellites. The sort of thing that was forbidden to speak at all during the

Cold War might still be. Don't know. They classified everything, so you don't know what's still

classified. But right now, Russia's working on a spy satellite that's digitalized

and smaller to be launched frequently and as need in the event of a catastrophe on Earth. Before this,

however, earlier in the century I learned from Anatolia, there was Resource P. That was the name of the Earth watching satellite,

aka Spy Satellite. It had a big array of solar panels, and it was in space to observe and

send down signals electronically. Anatoly, is this what's in space now, what I'm looking at

in your illustration? Yes.

So a resource program is still an active program.

It's actually also has roots in the Soviet Union, and it was the first versions of the satellite were developed during the Soviet period, but then they were updated and

upgraded several times.

And that resource P was also a major step from the traditional Soviet-era

satellites where they would return film in special capsules, exactly like that film implied,

and to electronic delivery of imagery. So a resource was equipped with this large telescope,

which would produce imagery, digital imagery,

which would then be beamed back to Earth using radio.

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