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From: barry@ames-lm.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: re: space marines as ASATs - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 00:10:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 00:10:18 1984
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> Nothing else that I have read or heard suggests that the USSR has done
> more than test an ASAT system, at the same time that the US was doing
> development work on ours.  That the Soviets have deployed a functioning
> ASAT system and used their weapons on our satellites is alarming, to say
> the least, if true.

	I recall there was an article 2-3 years ago in Aviation Week
& Space Technology about the Russians testing a beam-type ASAT on our
satellites. The author's name was something like Keyhoe. As I remember
it, a major controversy ensued in AW&ST, with numerous experts both supporting
and disputing the story. Don't know if anything was settled. Can anyone
supply details?
                                                Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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