In sci.space.policy message c6162db7-da70-446a-b71c-aa26b5282199@f10g20
00hsf.googlegroups.com, Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:52:04, Allen Thomson
posted:

The satellite that's extremely likely to be the one in question,
USA-193, is in a 58.5 degree orbit. So if you live in northern Canada,
a fair chunk of Russia, most of Scandinavia, or Antarctica, you're
safe. Everybody else is (safe - epsilon), where epsilon is a teeny
quantity.

That's one way of annoying, by ignoring, the inhabitants of Alaska,
Greenland, and Iceland, for a start. Also of the Faeroes and of part of
the UK.

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