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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Oct 10 AW&ST (STS-27 payload)
Message-ID: <1240@atari.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:59:06 GMT
References: <1988Nov17.052317.25865@utzoo.uucp> <1988Nov18.175219.1013@utzoo.uucp> <11880@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
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In article <11880@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@ka9q.bellcore.com.UUCP 
(Phil Karn) writes:
> I suggest a very simple test to help determine whether the STS-27 payload is
> a photoreconnaissance spacecraft in the KH-11/KH-12 category, or an ELINT
> (electronic intelligence) spacecraft in the Vortex/Chalet/Magnum class.

> Carefully watch the launch to determine the flight azimuth. 

Doesn't DOD (or whoever) know this? Wouldn't they put it up in a
deliberately misleading or generic way, at the expense of using more
fuel in the satellite to get it where they really want it?

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