On Nov 16, 3:22*pm, "G=EMC^2" wrote:
On Nov 15, 8:44*pm, bob haller wrote:









On Nov 15, 6:54*pm, Rick Jones wrote:

In sci.space.history Robert Clark wrote:

*Interesting suggestion in the comments section on that page:
Phobos-Grunt Mars probe remains silent in Earth orbit.
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: November 11, 2011
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/11phobosgrunt/
*The idea would be to use the X-37B currently in orbit to
communicate with the satellite. It certainly could at least
photograph it.

Assuming of course that it (or perhaps TDRS) could speak the same
frequencies and the guvmint was confident it would not leak
information about the capabilities of our assets.

If done uninvited the Russians and the Chinese would probably have a
hissy fit - "Imperialist lacky dogs in the United States Military
bowed to the pressure of their CIA masters to attempt to steal Russian
and Chinese state property!" etc etc.

rick jones
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well if this comes down in a populated area there will be endless
investigations, no launch should be allowed that a likely failure
prohibits communication, and all launches should be required to get
back telemetary during all modes of flight.....

idiots must of designed this

Russia going to Mars China building a base on Moon We can't even go
back up 200 miles. That tells me when America was taken over by the
Godfather(Mafia) we got grounded * TtreBert

Our government spent ten fold more our hard earned loot than we gave
them authority to do so.

They got us on average spending another $27.40/day, and that's an
extra $10,000 per year. Most of us couldn't honestly afford to spend
an extra $5/day to begin with, and nowadays some are having troubles
with spending an extra $2/day (myself included). I don't have any
spare $60/month to blow, though obviously they seem to think I have
$822 in spare loot every month.

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