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1 Aug 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Remote sensors would help lay the foundations for mass automation. In a world full of remote sensors and IOT devices, it can be hard to think of a time when we did things in a completely different way from how we do it today. But there was a time whe...
30 Jul 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
This ship would be involved in a Cold War era race to recover a sunken submarine. Some of the best espionage tales contain elements that, in some instances, are far stranger than fiction. And today, we’ll be taking a look at one of these interesting...
26 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
A picture says a thousand words, and these pictures say plenty. Aviation is pretty cool. In mere decades, we went from the biplane to the Jet Engine right through to the Saturn 5 rocket that would help land man on the moon. Over this time, we would s...
21 Jul 2025 4 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The right antenna will determine the success (or failure) of your satellite receiving station. In this previous article, we took a look at some of the steps we’d need to cover to set up and configure a satellite receiving station that fed data to the...
20 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Height was might thanks to the U-2, but the SR-71 had true speed. Sometimes, things become cultural icons without that ever being the intent. And while in today’s world, spy satellites have made the concept of a reconnaissance platform somewhat outda...
14 Jul 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
The humble BBS was the precursor to Forums and Social Media. The internet is everywhere today, and we’re now evolving the internet of things, which gives us remote sensors that are able to change the way we tackle certain problems. There was a time,...
7 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
The RTL-SDR dongle can be a cheap entry into the world of radio. We’ve spoken before in previous articles about the utility that you can get by acquiring one of the RTL-SDR dongles. These cheap USB devices are a great introduction to the world of rad...
5 Jul 2025 4 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
The Soviet-designed “thing” was god-tier levels of surveillance wizardry. In a world full of computers, if you’re younger, it’s often hard to picture a world where they didn’t exist at the same levels that we see today. In the post-WW2 years, though,...
30 Jun 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
We’ve come a long way since the inkpot. And while the typewriter would give us legitimate work processing capabilities, it would take personal computers to truly supercharge our productivity. When we had computers, though, we decided we needed more....
28 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
For weather hunters and amateur meteorologists, the American NOAA satellite fleets have been workhorses, providing imaging data to meteorology programs of all types the world over. However, over time, these imaging satellites have grown to become com...
