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Old April 22nd 05, 07:21 PM
Scott Lowther
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

In message , Pat Flannery
writes



Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Gee, if we only knew in advance which spacecraft would succeed and
which would fail, then we could only fund the successful ones and
save the money!




At least they _say_ it's dead....but now that the stealth cover has
extended itself, the ion engines have kicked in, and the tiny 5 mm
recoilless machine gun has been armed....well...let's just say that
the owners of any satellites broadcasting Al-Jazeera might want to
check up on their insurance status... ;-)

Quite so. One wouldn't want to see both sides of a story.


I wonder if people said similar things regarding jokes about taking out
Joe Goebbels transmitters...
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Old April 22nd 05, 08:18 PM
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Pat Flannery wrote:
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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

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Old April 22nd 05, 09:40 PM
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snidely wrote:


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.



Quite so. Does anyone have a timeline on this program? It obviously had
a multi-year gestation process, and at least got started as a pre-Bush
Space Initiative program.

Pat
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Old April 23rd 05, 12:45 AM
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Does anyone have a timeline on this program? It obviously had
a multi-year gestation process, and at least got started as a

pre-Bush
Space Initiative program.


Not quite, but Ray Schmitt posted a space.com link in sss that has a
relevant paragraph.

/dps

 




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