Re: USA 40 debris storm

Tristan Cools (tcools@nic.INbe.net)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 11:17:04 +0100

>Short answer -
>
>USA 40 was virturally identical to the USA 89 (a/k/a DOD-1) satellite
>launched during the STS-53 shuttle mission.
>
>USA 41 was a GLOMR-class microsat ejected from a GAS can.
>
>

Another question pops up to me.  If it wasn't a KH12 satellite, did there
ever excist something like a KH12 then ?


Tristan Cools
tcools@nic.INbe.net