> So, are you saying that the Midas satellites were operational for 2 > weeks, maximum? Some for only a couple of hours? That seems like an > immense expenditure of money at a very low efficiency. Perhaps they were > launched at times of hightened alert of nuclear attack. May I assume > that there were other Early Warning satellites in orbit during the early > 1960's? No, But those satellite, publicly announced as (or at least in open press designated as) Midas type satellites were only prototypes. Other - operational - early warning satellites are not incorporated into mentioned ones. Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420(2)21403255, fax +420(2)24240611 Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic Phone: +420(305)592865 - Coord.: 14.2194 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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