For what it's worth, http://www.msnbc.com/news/493305.asp contains a short article about a new IBM supercomputer being used to process near-real time images of orbiting spacecraft and debris. The new computer is about 40 time faster than the IBM "Deep Blue" supercomputer that defeated Gary Kasparov in 1997, and is capable of performing 480 billion calculations per second. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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