[FPSPACE] Comment on Sven's comment..about rectification

[Sven Grahn]

It just feels strange that the CIA claims that the Soviets were more 
successful than later admitted by Russia after the fall of the Soviet 
Union. In that case I tend to believe those with hard data available - 
the Russians, who in these latter days have a commercial motive to show 
how well they did in the old days. You know, hardware heritage and all 
that.

And, especially when it comes to interplanetary missions US sensors 
had a hard time following them. I will look up the relevant quote from 
Jim Burke's article in "Studies in INtelligence" and post later. Have 
to dash home from work....

Cheers

Sven

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Datum: 15-11-2007 15:10
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Ärende: [FPSPACE] Comment on Sven&#39;s comment..about rectification

Sven,

 

Don't you find it a bit odd that, you would have more of inclination 
to
believe the US intelligence data if it was saying the Soviet mission 
was
less successful than public promulgations, but not if it was the other 
way
around?

 

Correct me if I am wrong, but is the perception that you are stating 
is that
perhaps the US equipment worked "Better" when it was finding launch
failures, but "Less well" when it may have data that the spacecraft 
worked
for a bit longer, or did things the Russians did not publicly proclaim 
that
it did?

 

I am having a slight bit of cognitive dissonance.  I hope you can set 
me
straight on that.

 

 

In the text that the graphs you discuss are from, the writers did 
mention
that the Soviets could have claimed a "throw weight achievement" in 
regards
to the early Zond attempts that got stranded in Earth orbit.  And also 
notes
that the Russians did not.

 

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