> It will be interesting to see if NORAD releases TLEs for these > satellites. Did NORAD release TLE's for allied satellites during the Cold War? It's mighty strange to see the U.S., Russia and China all cooperating to some degree in a military effort. Never thought I'd ever see that. > > MOSCOW, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Russia plans to launch a series of extra > spy > > satellites to gather intelligence over Afghanistan, Interfax news > agency > > reported on Wednesday, quoting the head of Russia's space forces. > > > > General-Colonel Anatoly Perminov said that given a possible strike > led by > the > > United States on Afghanistan, Russia needed to deploy extra > satellites. He > > did not give details. > > > > "So far we see all that we need to see but soon we need to bring a > series > of > > space satellites from battle reserves," Perminov was quoted as > saying. > > "Battle reserves" - is Mr. Perminov saying that the Russians (and maybe the Americans, too) have stores of satelllites that they can launch when needed? The name "battle reserves" - sounds like if there ever is a war in space, that's where pulverized satellites would get their replacements. > > Perminov was quoted as saying that the United States did not need > to > > strengthen its network of intelligence-gathering satellites in the > region. Perhaps, but the timing of the launch (sometime soon) of a spysat on a Titan 4B rocket is a great coincidence, at the very least. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 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/web/. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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