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Subject: Re: Atlantis heard during launch
Summary: CNN said it was a KH-12
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Date: 4 Mar 90 01:04:57 GMT
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In article <7117@lynx.UUCP>, neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall) writes...
>In article <20405@bellcore.bellcore.com> Phil Karn writes:
> 
>>I heard UHF air-to-ground communications during this morning's launch of
>>Atlantis on its "secret" shuttle mission.....The last message clearly said
>>"APU shutdown on time"; this seems right given that the launch had occurred
>>about 10 minutes earlier.
> 
>The payload has been said to be a spy satellite.....is a high inclination orbit
>good for a sypsat? If the intended observaton target is the Soviet Union, most
>of which is in the far northern lattitudes, this would seem to fit with a high
>inclination orbit.
> 
>Neal

I was greatly amused the other night, tuning in to CNN to follow the status of
the launch, to see them displaying a simple diagram of a KH-12!  They were
saying that their sources had confirmed that that was what it was.  But of
course, no one official would admit it (and the NSA still dosen't use computers
either ;^).

=Jp=
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