Regarding launch patches, it is worth remembering that in January 2008, NRO director Scott F. Large issued a memo warning against including symbolism in patches that could reveal secrets about payloads and missions: http://fas.org/irp/nro/patches.pdf The NROL-49 patch designers seem not to have received the memo, but most of the other recent ones have been pretty bland. That is not to say that we should not try to interpret them, but we should keep our expectations of learning anything useful low. Fortunately, they were never essential to our ability to find and track new launches. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Wed Dec 10 2014 - 07:16:26 UTC
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