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From: cognos!geovision!pt@dciem
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Subject: Re: Pegasus
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Date: 19 Apr 91 14:20:25 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>If the small system is cheap
>enough, one might even consider launching it for a single pass over a crucial
>area, and never mind where it goes after that.

So why not use suborbital sounding rockets, rather than a sophisticated
orbiter, with all the guidance and launching headaches that entails.

Surely the best recon in that situation would come from launching a rocket
that goes up to 100,000 ft or so, with an instrument package that drifts
back down by balloon or parachute (or ballute)?

-- 
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