Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!shamash!com50!bungia!meccts!viper!dave From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Atlantis orbit Keywords: Maybe 28.5 deg and launching a geostat sat Message-ID: <1607@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Date: 18 Nov 88 05:40:37 GMT References: <1150@scicom.alphacdc.com> Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN Lines: 17 In article <1150@scicom.alphacdc.com> wats@scicom.alphacdc.com (Bruce Watson) writes: > >It occurred to me that the Spysat to the launched from Atlantis >may be going into geostationary orbit. From there it would see >latituds to abs(81.3deg), although tangentially. This wouldn't >be as important for electronic surveillence as it would be for >optical. It is probably a KH-12 (it seems to be an open secret). The KH-12 is basically a huge telescope and would be used from low-earth orbit to get the best data. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ __ _ _ _ David Messer - Lynx Data Systems / ) / ' ) ) ) dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or- / / __. , __o __/ / / / _ _ _ _ __ ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia! /__/_(_/|_\\/ <__(_/_ / ' (_