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From: prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice)
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Subject: Re: Pegasus
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Date: 13 Apr 91 20:59:40 GMT
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From: prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice)


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>From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>Nothing theoretically difficult about it.  You'd need to scale down Pegasus
>considerably -- it's the size of a fighter and very heavy -- but it could
>be done.  You'd also, as Gordon mentioned, need some quite small satellites
>to be the payloads.

How far could one go with this sort of thing before concerns would be
raised about such a vehicle having a ASAT capability and therefore being
regulated by the ABM treaty?

-- 
John K. Prentice    john@unmfys.unm.edu (Internet)
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Computational Physics Group, Amparo Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, USA