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SixDegrees2/27/2010 12:26:51 pm PST

re: #136 Mojave

Common misconception. Runways have been expanded recently, and a new hanger was built the other year. Check out the link I posted above.

Uh - the runway expansion and additional hangar space were both performed a couple of decades ago. Poke around awhile, and you’ll find those exact same photos being peddled in articles dating back that far. They’re being peddled as if they were new either out of ignorance or willful intent to mislead. They were originally taken by France’s SPOT satellite series, and caused a good deal of yelping at the NRO over the release of sub-meter resolution imagery to the commercial market at a time when the US had been the sole agent capable of such resolution for quite some time. Since then, and entire industry has grown up providing high resolution satellite imagery to private concerns for a variety of uses.