Talk:Itek

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Did you know... that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite?

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Referencing well-done

Nice job with the referencing in this article. I appreciate how the text copied from PD source is set aside in block quotes, as it should be. Not sure whether the general disclaimer "incorporates text from" the one source, generated by use of the "USGovernment" template, is needed or helpful. In my view, that suggests that text written by the editor(s), anything that is outside of quotes, may well have just been copied, too. It appears, instead, that any use of the PD source is completely documented already, so the general disclaimer does not add.

Use of the "USGovernment" template is in fact what called this article to my attention, I have been going through many other articles in the "Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government". This article is better than most of the others, many of which are just careless paste-jobs with the general disclaimer as an apology. I am not sure you want to associate with them. Anyhow, keep up the good work! doncram (talk) 18:31, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I like it. It is straight forward and clean. Also, such wording helps to educate those who do a direct copy/paste that there are ways to put the information into Wikipedia in a neat format that avoids any semblance of plagiarism. Mattisse 23:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Litton Acquisition

I worked in Corporate Finance at Itek HQ in Lexington from 1980-1983. I'd like to set the record straight about the Litton acquistion. Itek was under significant financial pressure in the fall of 1982. We had suspended payments to suppliers and had inadequate cash to make it through 1983. Itek had few options by the time Litton came along. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Str8-Razr (talk • contribs) 14:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Misplaced Comment in Article

The ″Hughes, Raytheon, and Goodrich purchase″ section contained text that was apparently meant to be a comment in Talk, namely: ″Itek was not the maker of the Hubble Mirror. It was Perkin—Elmer in Danbury, CT. The comments above referencing that are not correct. I should know as I worked in management there but if you want a citation, try this: http://quest.nasa.gov/hst/about/history.html″. I've removed it. --HH 89.27.253.230 (talk) 11:39, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added mention of Itek Advanced Technology Airborne Computers (ATAC)

Galileo (spacecraft) says "The Galileo Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACSE) was controlled by two Itek Advanced Technology Airborne Computers (ATAC), built using radiation-hardened 2901s. ...[5]

[5] Tomayko, James E. (March 1988). Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience (PDF) (Report). NASA History Office. Retrieved 29 October 2020. Large PDF, 400p ! (See p186-201)
Ref says also used on Shuttle. - Rod57 (talk) 21:47, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]