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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
