Pat Flannery wrote:
Von Fourche wrote:

Don't you wish you could be paid $110 million to retire like NASA's
DART
Mission? And if successful it was only supposed to last twenty-four
hours
before expending battery life and fuel? For $110 million it better
last
longer than that.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...ch_050415.html



Remember that fuss in the Senate a couple of months back regarding
the
secret satellite project to sneak stealth satellites up to foreign
ones
where they would give them the once-over and disable them if wished?
DART sounds a lot like step one of that program.


XSS-11, a similar DoD project that apparently hasn't
failed, is more likely to be that step than DART,
which is a NASA program. It would be amazingly
hard, if not impossible, to hide a secret project
via. NASA.

- Ed Kyle