Expect them to come aknockin.! "We know China and Russia are working on lasers that can blind our satellites. By publicly broadcasting their location, we make their job easy -- point and shoot. " Other satellite issues are equally troubling. For example, it is known that the Milstar, the main U.S. battlefield coordinating satellite, was knocked out for three hours in a Y2K glitch. Without the Milstar, the U.S. military is essentially blind on the battlefield. Much of the satellite data used to fight the Gulf War was coordinated through the Australia-based facilities at Pine Gap. " "Not only do you have sites like heavens-above.com divulging the location of our spy satellites, Notice the post about Celestrak,bet your bottom dollar their gonna crackdown,NORAD are taking posting TLE info. Graham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 12:14 PM Subject: old article - Spy satellites on demand > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19083 > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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