Lockheed Martin

5517.723 - 5538.344 David Rosenthal

Ah, let's get into it. Okay, so the name Corona. There are conflicting stories of whether it comes from the Corona typewriter or the Corona type of cigar that apparently the Pentagon official that championed this program really liked. We'll never know. It's all classified. So these satellites, like we've been alluding to, had cameras on them. The first one went up in August 1960.