[FPSPACE] Soyuz entry

[Keith Gottschalk]

Dear Deger,

  I'm just bursting with curiosity to know what the explanation is!

     When I raised the same question with astonishment over Columbia's
last descent, one FPSPACE-er kindly told us that the reason was that the
relevant US "assets" needed to be requested in advance to switch on
ahead of time, in order to have followed Columbia's descending streak
over California, Nevada. New Mexico, Texas, and the bits that fell into
Louisiana.

    All quite different from my younger days during the cold war!
Perhaps I overestimate the omniscence of current superpower
surveillance. While it is awesome in ability to pick up phone
converations in foreign countries, there was also that recent case where
a light plane carrying some celebrity explorer in (?) Arizona
disappeared, & the USG can't find it.
What made this all the more astonishing is that Arizona is hardly
thickly forested & swampy country, but semi-desert, where the wreckage
of a plane should be visible from satellite imagery, never mind from UAV
surveys.

warm regards, Keith

>>>> Zeger <dokter.nuyens at pandora.be> 04/23/08 6:26 PM >>>
>>
>>  I assume that 100 kms altitude in neighbouring Kazakhstan is still
in
>> line of sight of Russian defence radars, as well as any they are
still
>> permitted to continue operating within sovereign Kazakhstan.
>Keith,
>
>Are you suggesting the Russians don't have that kind of detection 
>hardware anymore or
>are you suggesting they are hiding something?
>
>
>Zeger
>dokter.nuyens at pandora.be 
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