[HN Gopher] Silicon Valley weapons system117l and corona (2010)
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       Silicon Valley weapons system117l and corona (2010)
        
       Author : sblank
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-02-29 18:01 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | pinewurst wrote:
       | (2010)
        
       | kens wrote:
       | I'm confused by one statement in the article: "Lockheed turned
       | the Hiller Helicopter plant in East Palo Alto into the control
       | facility for all spy satellites". Presumably the control facility
       | was the Blue Cube (later Onizuka AFS), but that was in Sunnyvale,
       | not East Palo Alto.
        
         | CalChris wrote:
         | First Stanford Industrial Park and then Sunnyvale AFB which was
         | renamed Onizuka AFB in 1986, well after the Corona Program
         | ended in 1972.
        
       | doug_durham wrote:
       | People don't appreciate the importance of defense spending on the
       | emergence of Silicon Valley. It really helped grow a
       | semiconductor company when you had a customer with deep pockets
       | who would buy everything you could produce literally just down
       | the street.
        
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