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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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