[FPSPACE] U.S physics blunder [in 1964] almost ended space programs

[David Anderman]

This one is easy to refute, since the only Soviet launches of 3 satellites 
at a time was the Glonass series, to orbits of 10,000 kms. Perhaps there 
really are 'killer' Glonass satellites out there, waiting to be revived, to 
swoop down to kill spy satellites in LEO.

DWA



At 10:53 PM 12/14/00 -0500, JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:
>  These Pentagon sources said it was common practice for the Soviets to
>launch satellites three at a time with only two becoming immediately active.
>Such dark satellites are highly unlikely to be identified as a threat, these
>U.S. analysts said.