Ed Kyle wrote:
One military Proton launch pad is probably
enough. There have only been 2-3 military
Proton K launches per year in recent years.
Plus, a Proton K launched three Glonass
defense sats from 200/39 last December.
Their entire military space program is vastly decreased from the 1970's-
80's... I can remember going out after sunset to satellite watch and the
sky was fairly littered with spent rocket stages passing overhead- a
large proportion of which were Soviet.
Pat
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