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To: little jeremiah

What is Corona?

I found a Corona, CA, and Corona, NY, and a website called corona.cast showing this:

https://corona.cast.uark.edu/atlas#zoom=5&center=4700000,3600000


1,427 posted on 02/14/2019 4:43:09 PM PST by Bigg Red (MAGA)
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To: Bigg Red; little jeremiah

Also, he says “games are fun”. I also saw something about a game platform called Corona. Could that be like the XBox site the DS had been using for comms?


1,429 posted on 02/14/2019 4:45:42 PM PST by Bigg Red (MAGA)
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To: Bigg Red

The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency


1,430 posted on 02/14/2019 4:47:01 PM PST by BiggBob
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To: Bigg Red

This is what you are looking for

CORONA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_%28satellite%29

The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The Corona satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), the People’s Republic of China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972. The name of this program is sometimes seen in pre-ASCII all caps as “CORONA”, but in mixed caps, its actual name “Corona” was a codeword, not an acronym

More at link


1,475 posted on 02/14/2019 6:02:06 PM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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