Dart too sensitive for public release?

"Lord Vain" wrote in
om:

Today, NASA has a real interest in
automated docking/rendezvouz technology for the 'new' moon program and
they're therefore developing it, but the DOD also wants to use it (may
even be funding a large part of it) for their hunter-killer satellites
but they insist on secrecy. It's pretty obvious that the revealing of
the failure could give third parties a good insight how NASA/DOD is
tackling the automated docking/rendevouz problem.

Nice theory but... the DoD already has its own automated rendezvous/docking
program (XSS-11) and it appears to be working better than DART already. So
the DART mishap report will give no insight into how DoD is tackling the
problem; they're using a completely different system.

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