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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: aerospikes
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:31:11 GMT
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- In <BzHGox.9Lx@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- >Substantial cross-range is indeed primarily a military requirement,
- >driven by the one-orbit mission, whose basic rationale is deploying a
- >spy satellite -- or doing any of a number of other things -- in wartime
- >conditions where coming around again in a predictable orbit is likely
- >to result in being shot at.
-
- Of course, if the enemy has the capability to shoot at you, he also
- has the capability to shoot down that nice, new spy satellite, which
- is also in a predictable orbit. It is not clear to me that this
- requirement was well thought-out.
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