Re: NRO PR: POPPY Satellite Reconnaissance Program Recognized

From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 16:01:54 EDT

  • Next message: Stephan Szyman: "Re: NRO PR: POPPY Satellite Reconnaissance Program Recognized"

    In a message dated 9/16/2005 7:48:17 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
    seesat@rogers.com writes:
    
    >>The last of seven launches in the program, on 1971 Dec 14,  orbited what I 
    have
    long believed were experimental NOSS. 1971-110A, C, D  & E. They remain the 
    only
    POPPY objects for which official 2-line  elements are not available, having 
    been
    classified in 1983  June.<<
    
    Way back in the 1960s and 1970s when I avidly collected data on orbited  
    objects, I was mightily dismayed by the enormous number of launches that I had  to 
    log as "classified" and "unidentified," with little more than conjecture  
    about which US  or Soviet military program they might have belonged to. So,  
    thanks to this list and Jonathan McDowell's Web site, I'm really happy at long  
    last to find out what some--indeed, most--of those enigmatic spacecraft of yore  
    were doing up there. I'm also pleased to finally learn about the various 
    Soviet  launch failures over the years, a topic that simply didn't exist then, 
    even  though I knew there must have been some. Who would have imagined then that 
    the  US and Russia would actually be launching spacecraft for each other 30 
    years  later? That's gotta be progress!
     
    
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