OT, but perhaps of interest to some readers: A slightly obscure but important element of the US space surveillance/intelligence system is the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center at NSA headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland. (The acronym, DEFSMAC, is universally pronounced "deaf-smack.") Some description of it, only moderately censored, is in a short declassified article at http://www.nsa.gov/public/pdf/desfmac.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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