Mention of the Novosti Kosmonavtiki article on MISTY reminded me of an article some of you might find interesting published by the same journal in September 2003 on USA-171 and other US geosynchronous SIGINT satellites. The original article, in Russian of course, can be found at http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/numbers/250/17.shtml I don't know any willing Russian translators, unfortunately, but I did run the article through one of those crude translation programs on the web, which was good enough to get most of the gist of it. Like the MISTY article, it is also mainly a pastiche of previously published information, but it too seems to have some intriguing tidbits. I would be happy to send the result to anyone who wants to have a look. - Bill Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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