> >See a picture of this sat (USA 103 - 23097) at ... > >http://www.roestmann.com/ > >What an odd looking thing, anyone know what it's for? > > USA 103 is a classified Trumpet ELINT/SIGINT sat. That huge thing on > top is > its receiving parabolic dish, taking care of the "listening" part of > its > operation. The downlink dish is the comparably "small" one below. If > you > check the other Trumpets and Advanced Orions on that site, you'll > get views > on the same 3D model from different angles, some show the whole > assembly > somewhat better than this particular example. Would anyone happen to know how big that "receiving parabolic dish" is? It looks enormous! ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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