On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 12:51:54 +0100, you (Matthew.Fawcett@eastriding.gov.uk) wrote: >See a picture of this sat (USA 103 - 23097) at ... >http://www.roestmann.com/ >What an odd looking thing, anyone know what it's for? USA 103 is a classified Trumpet ELINT/SIGINT sat. That huge thing on top is its receiving parabolic dish, taking care of the "listening" part of its operation. The downlink dish is the comparably "small" one below. If you check the other Trumpets and Advanced Orions on that site, you'll get views on the same 3D model from different angles, some show the whole assembly somewhat better than this particular example. CU! Markus ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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