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From: crs@lanl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: ASAT
Message-ID: <31163@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 10:16:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 10:16:22 1985
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> In article <1764@hao.UUCP> pete@hao.UUCP (Pete Reppert) writes:
> >Guess what? The "defunct military satellite" shot down
> >by ASAT as a test was really a functioning scientific
> >satellite called SOLWIND or something like that ( at least
> >that`s how the rumor goes ). Tsk tsk. 
> >-- 
> > Pete Reppert
> 
> No rumor.  Fact, actually.  From the Washington Post, as published in
> the (well, it's what I've got) San Francisco Chronicle, Fri, 20 Sept.,
> .
> .
> .
> 	Yesterday, an Air Force spokesman said the Pentagon was not
> 	ready to provide complete answeres to queries about Solwind's
> 	functions and choice as a target.  He said the satellite was
> 	originally intended to operate for three years at most after
		   ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ####
> 	launching in 1979.

Seems that this is carrying *planned* obsolescence to the extreme!

-- 
All opinions are mine alone...

Charlie Sorsby
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