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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: aerospikes
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:59:12 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.193604.28757@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
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- >Contrast this with one (or more) flights out of Nevada or White Sands which may
- >or may not be significant (helps if you've been running up and back to LEO for
- >a while as a regular habit) and kicking out the sat on one of those runs.
-
- Well, if they (whoever "they are") don't know your flight is "significant"
- enough to shoot down, why are you in a hurry to reenter?
-
-
- >The cheap-sat may be in a predictable orbit, but you are now faced with
- >detecting it without the benefit of CNN coverage.
-
- If they can't detect a cheapsat without CNN coverage, how can they detect
- the launch vehicle?
-
-
- >Now, unless you have information from umm.. SPACETRACK? in NORAD, you have to
- >pick cheap-sat out of all the other man-made objects in orbit via some optical
- >means (hope it's not a cloudy night, but that cuts both ways) or with radar.
-
- Anyone who has an operational ASAT must, by definition, have some means
- of targeting.
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