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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Orbits ( was :  Info on Atlantis "secret" )
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Date: 22 Dec 88 20:38:34 GMT
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In article <3118@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
}In article <40506748.298d@dl298d.engin.umich.edu>, sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ken  Sheppardson) writes:
}> So just put a satellite directly over the terminator about 2100000 km up
}> so that it's period is one year :)
}A bit far up for a spy satellite.

Sort of depends with what you are spying where on whom.  Close is not
always better.  Look up elint, for instance...


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