--- Ted Molczan <sslmolcz@rogers.com> wrote: > Art Glick posted: > > > This seemed quite on topic (and interesting) to > me, so I > > thought I would share it... > > > > http://www.space.com/news/060707_graves_web.html > > Excerpts: > > "BROYE-LES-PESMES, France - A French > space-surveillance radar has detected 20-30 > satellites in low Earth orbit that do not figure in > the U.S. Defense > Department's published catalogue, a discovery that > French officials say they > will use to pressure U.S. authorities to stop > publishing the whereabouts of > French reconnaissance and military communications > satellites." > > > "Right now we do not have enough cards in our hand > to begin negotiations," Blin > said here at the Graves radar transmitter site June > 7. "We need more time to be > sure of what we are seeing. At that point we can > tell our American friends, 'We > have seen some things that you might wish to keep > out of the public domain. We > will agree to do this if you agree to stop > publishing the location of our > sensitive satellites." > > End excerpts. > > Looks like those of us hobbyists who track similar > objects may soon be adding > some French satellites to the 130 or so U.S. and > Japanese objects that we track. > > Ted Molczan > > This seems to be saying to me there could still be some U.S. surveillance satellites that have not been revealed. Then possibly there could be satellites with the very high resolution I was speculating about. Bob Clark ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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