Lockheed Martin

5570.31 - 5594.722 David Rosenthal

Now, the U2 camera system did have a higher resolution than that, higher ground resolution, but five feet was still plenty good. And more importantly, the Corona system could take photos anywhere in the world on its orbit. And if you had multiple of these satellites up there, you know, you could pretty much blanket the earth or at least everywhere you cared about pretty quickly.