Pat Flannery wrote:
[...]
Also note what the target satellite was: MUBLCOM, a military
communications test satellite

and then
[....]
as MUBLCOM was
launched in may of 1999, prior to the loss of the Columbia, and long
before the decision was made to ditch Hubble- as well as before
Bush's
new space directive was born... that DART is supposed to be in
support
of. And yet MUBLCOM was equipped with the DART target optics.


This date also argues against DART being a Bush initiative to hide in
plain sight, since he wasn't yet setting national space or defense
policy in 1999.

/dps