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Well, since that posting to all the space newsgroups apparently went
nowhere, let's try it again: "I've been batting my head against the wall for the past week about this. Take a look at this photo taken by the XS-1 subsatellite of the front end of the Shenzhou7 orbital module that is still in orbit and equipped with its own solar arrays and RCS: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10152706.htm Note the six attachments for the things that can separate from it; the top one being empty, as that's where the XS-1 subsatellite was mounted. Now note the design for the Soviet DOC-7 Almaz-based space station with the space-to-space missiles mounted on the front of it: http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.p...afce51ed1bcda6 Now note the design of the Chinese first generation space station and what's on its front end in this painting from the Chinese National Space Agency: http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/473a.jpg The thing is a Almaz clone and has the same things mounted on Shenzhou-7 sticking out of its front end. I tried to write to DARPA about this, but although I could contact DARPA regarding business opportunities, just contacting them in any other form is not easy to find on their website. So I tried to contact Space Command, as this might fall under their area of responsibility... and I spent half a hour writing a message to them, went to send it, and had "Sorry there was a problem posting your message, could you try again?" come up. So, I was going to send it to Defense Tech... and a couple of days after I sent it, Defense Tech's mail program says the mail is undeliverable. So I sent it to "Arms Control Wonk", and I have no reply yet from them. I also sent it to James Oberg, but he didn't buy my interpretation of the original Shenzhou-7 "what's-it's" on the front of the orbital module, and hasn't replied yet to the artwork of the Almaz-clone station from CNSA. So, if someone out there in newsgroup land could actually tell someone in the US intelligence community that they might want to have a peek at all this, I wouldn't feel like that radar operator up on the mountain in Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941 telling headquarters that they don't really look like a group of B-17s flying in from the mainland to me. Pat" |
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