The CBN 700 Club broadcast here a few minutes ago (Sunday 7am local) on the CBS affiliate began with a look into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex (home, I believe, of NORAD and USSPACECOM), interviews with AF officers, simulations of missile interceptions, etc. Mention was made of a recent failed test. If I recall correctly, that test from Vandenburg and/or its successful predecessor were responsible for a good deal of interesting sky viewing on the West Coast. Reported that the next test is scheduled for late June. A cursory review of the Vandenburg public launch schedule, http://mocc.vafb.af.mil/launchsched.asp, did not reveal such a scheduled date, although it does show a Titan (big, bright rocket) DOD launch for July 17th. Those of you who keep better track of these things than I do may know whether previous launches of the "mini-Star Wars interceptor", or whatever they call it, have been announced in advance, and if so, how far in advance. Cheers. Walter Nissen wnissen@tfn.net -81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation --- If your banker keeps your money in flimsy cabinets on the public sidewalk, and your money is stolen, who is the criminal? The thief, or the banker? If TCP/IP does not provide secure connections, and you decide to perform your work on the Internet, and if Windows 98 and Office 97 are notoriously vulnerable and buggy, and you choose to use them, and if your Justice Department seems more involved in developing tools capable of tracking every movement of every citizen, 24/7, than in securing government computers and networks against infiltration by viruses, worms and Trojan horses, and if your system is cracked, who is responsible for the failure? The cracker, or you? ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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