Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: "Magnum" Electronic Intelligence Satellite
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.162419.10194@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15325@celit.fps.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 1991 16:24:19 GMT

In article <15325@celit.fps.com> dave@fps.com (Dave Smith) writes:
>I saw a mention in Time of a satellite named "Magnum" which is supposed to
>be used for electronic eavesdropping.  The blurb said that it had an
>antenna "the size of a baseball field."  This sounds like a really large
>structure to be deploying automatically.  Does anyone have any info
>on this beasty?

What you've just said -- it's called "Magnum", it's an eavesdropping
satellite, and it probably has a big deployable antenna -- is just about
the sum total of unclassified knowledge about it.
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