EVALUATION OF MISSION GT 64-109

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001700210001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 28, 1964
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: EVALUATION OF MISSION GT 64-109
1. CAMERA 112B WAS USED IN MISSION GT 64-109 FLOWN ON 21 APRIL,,,g~*j
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A. THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEUQATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. FORWARD (CAMERA I-2): THE FIRST 7 FRAMES ARE GROSSLY Grace (File}
FOGGED. FRAMES 8 - 25 ARE FOGGED TO A LESSER DEGREE. RANDOM
SAMPLINGS OF FORWARD OVERLAP WERE TAKEN AND THE RESULTS ARE AS
FOLLOWS: FRAMES 216-217 5 PERCENT; FRAMES4a2-443, 14 PERCENT;
FRAMES 498-499, 14 PERCENT; FRAMES 693-694, 0 PERCENT. FRAMES
703-70$ ARE GROSSLY FOGGED. FOG OF LESSER INTENSITY APPEARS ON
FRAMES 693-702. THE LAST TITLED FRAME IS 708.
C. AF? CAMERA (I-1) - CREASES WITH ASSOCIATED PLUS DENSITY
STREAKS ARE PRESENT ON FRAMES 219 277, 278, 441 442, 1492 AND
1493. MINUS DENSITY DOTS WITH TAILS ARE FOUND ON FRAMES 306
337 433, 800, 865, 958, AND 1477. A PIECE OF FOREIGN MATTER
SURROUNDED BY A PLUS DENSITY RING AND FOLLOWED BY A PLUS DENSITY
TAIL IS PRESENT ON FRAME 325. MINOR MINUS DENSITY STREAKS ARE
FOUND BOTH PARALLEL TO THE EDGE AND SLOPING ACROSS EACH FORMAT.
ONE CONTINUOf1S MINUS DENSITY STREAK WAS NOTED 0.8" FROM THE LEADIN
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EDGE OF THE FILM. LIGHT HAS FOGGED FRAMES 1-32 AND 149@-1513.
A PIECE OF TAPE IS IMAGED ON 14 OF THE LAST 23 FRAMES. OTHER
SCRATCHES ARE LOCATED OW FRAMES 1, 2, 9-11 AND 13-17. FORWARD
OVERLAP WAS SPOT CHECKED AND RANGED FROM ZERO TO 1@ PERCENT.
MANUFACTURING SPLICES ARE LOCATED ON FRAMES ?17, 1@69, AND 1459.
THE LAST TITLED FRAME IS 1513.
D. BOTH CAMERAS: EDGE FOG IS CONTINUOUS THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
NUMEROUS LONGITUDINAL MINUS DENSITY STREAKS ARE ALSO CONTINUOUS.
RAIL SCRATCHES OF VARIOUS INTENSITIES ARE PRESENT THROUGHOUT.
TRANSVERSE BANDS OF VARYING DENSITIES ARE VISIBLE IN AREAS OF LOW
CONTRAST,
E. THERE ARE SOME VERY APPARENT DISCREPANCIES IN THE DATA
BLOCKS FROM THE PLANNED DATA BLOCKS ON THE SUBJECT MISSION. THESE
ARE GR05S ENOUGH TO WARRANT A CHECK OF THE WIRING AND THE READOUT
FROM THE CLOCK. LIGHT NO 17 IN THE DATA BLOCKS C2X1@ SEC.) DID
NOT LIGHT THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THIS CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY
IN DETERMINING THE PROPER CYCLE PERIOD. LIGHTS NUMBER 3, 4,
AND 5, WERE ALL LIT THROUGHOUT THE MISSION, THESE ARE RESPECTIVELY
1X8 HR, 1X4 HR, AND 1X2 HR. THIS ADDS UP TO 12 HOURS, THE 1X
HR LIGHT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON AND THE 8 HR AND 2 HR LIGHTS SHOULD
HAVE BEEN OFF BY LOGIC. IF THESE LIGHTS REPRESENT G.C.T. THEN
THE TOTAL OF ALL LIGHTS SHOULD NOT EXCEED 24 HOURS AND THEN SHOULD
REVERT TO @. THE LIGHTS THAT WERE SHOWN ON THE TEST MATERIAL
TOTALED OVER 32 HOURS. THERE IS STILL NO 1/1@TH SECOND READOUT
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ON THE DATA BLOCKS THEREFORE THE CYCLE PERIODS ARE NOT ACCURATE
ENOUGH FOR SCAN RATE COMPUTATIONS. THE BINARY DATA BLOCK AND CAMERA
NUMBER IS SMEARED AND UNREADABLE ON APPROXIMATELY 20 PERCENT OF THE
FRAMES THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THIS OBVIOUSLY NEGATES ANY AUTOMATIC
READOUT OF THE INFORMATION. THE 1/10TH SECOND READOUT SHOULD RESOLVE
THIS PROBLEM. ON SOME FRAMES A GOOD AND A SMEARED BINARY DATA
BLOCK AND CAMERA NUMBER APPEAR.
F. THE SAME GROSS DATA BLOCK ERRORS ARE EXISTENT IN THE
EARLIER MISSION, GT 64-106 WHICH WAS FLOWN ON MARCH 21 196 BUT
THEY ARE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO FIND DUE TO THE MANY SMEARED DATA
BLOCKS (APPROXIMATELY 80 PERCENT).
G. THE PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD.
H. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR DEGRADE APPROXIMATELY 301 PERCENT OF THE
MISSION.
T O P S E C R E T
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