Don't know what other constraints may apply, but from a purely geometrical standpoint we can say the following: March 12th - Forth Monmouth, NJ to Sudbury MA (MDR VTC Link) Located somewhere between 2°W and 143°W March 7th - San Diego, CA to Sudbury, MA (LDR Network Test) Located somewhere between 43°W and 143°W The above assumes a 5° satellite elevation angle at both ground terminals. Daryl Bahls 47.44N, 122.15W, 143m In a message dated 4/2/01 7:16:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, thomsona@flash.net writes: > "The first point-to-point communications using the new MDR payload occurred > on March 12 followed shortly thereafter by the first-ever video > teleconference (VTC) using two Army SMART-T terminals communicating over the > MDR payload on Milstar F-4. The VTC link was between Fort Monmouth, N.J., > and a Raytheon facility at Sudbury, Mass. " > > "The LDR payload which provides highly secure communications capability to > the National Command Authorities and Military Services under any conflict > environment completed initialization on March 6 and successfully established > an LDR communications network on March 7 using terminals at Sudbury, Mass. > and San Diego, Calif." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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