Re: Spy Sat Question

From: Stuart Eves (stuart@evesreading.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 15:04:13 PDT

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    Rainer,
    
    You're entirely right, but experienced imagery analysts can tell a lot
    from shadows, and you don't get enough of these at noon.
    
    Regards,
    
    Stuart
    
    In message <41256944.004280CF.00@esoc.esa.de>, rkresken@esoc.esa.de
    writes
    >Dear Seesaters,
    >
    >After the discussions about amateurs publishing spy sat orbits,
    >I asked myself whether it would make sense to place such satellites
    >in sunsynchronous orbits with equator crossings at local noon/midnight.
    >Even though this would cause technical problems, it would have the
    >"advantage" of making them almost invisible to people like us since
    >they would on be observable in sparsely populated high latitude regions.
    >Would this make sense and are there any indications  that such satellites exist?
    >
    >Rainer Kresken
    >
    >
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