No danger from MIRACL

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Eric Thayer wrote:

"I wonder if any risk analysis was done to determine the safety of this
little experiment.  I wonder if a visual observer could be harmed from a
partial reflection of the laser back to earth.  Judging from past
performance of the military/gov't., I would like to NOT be observing
that night if I was within the visibility radius of the satellite when
it gets toasted.  I thought this was a relatively safe hobby!  :-)"

No worries, Eric -- this laser is in the infrared, not the visible, and even
if it were in the visible, you would not be harmed by even a perfect specular
reflection.  B.t.w., the odds of seeing such a specular reflection would be
next to zero -- even if you happened to live in New Mexico -- due to the low
altitude of MSTI-3.

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