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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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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 |
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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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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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