In message <cabbxvhvhqqsj0brgbxtjzqoqd9ohrlhpjdx7anfb5goya2x...@mail.gmail.com>
, Chris Albertson writes:


>The reason for this was not to save money.  The goal was a communications
>system that could not be shot down or jammed.

Each piece of hardware without attitude and orbit control we launch,
adds to the space-junk catastrophe.

If you launch them on one rocket, they will by definition share major
orbit paramters, and it will only be a matter of time before they
start hitting each other, eventually causing an avalance of such
collisions.

Lets hope nobody is stupid enough to do something like that.

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