[FPSPACE] Burnt Frost starts to melt.. .!

[Jim Oberg]

Right. Nick Johnson told me his team confirmed
earlier studies. But those were done using actual
spacecraft data that made them too highly classified
for release. In these studies, parameters such as 'assumed
starting temp' were delivered without proof.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Thomson" <thomsona at flash.net>
To: "John Locker" <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk>; "FPSpace" 
<fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Burnt Frost starts to melt.. .!


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> --- On Fri, 8/22/08, John Locker <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Under a Freedom Of  Information Act request Yousaf  Butt
>> has come up with some interesting information.
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> I wonder why it was necessary for NASA to do the modeling described, which 
> was apparently a hurried, last minute affair. According to accounts of the 
> lead-up to the intercept, things got moving in mid-December when Scott 
> Large, NRO Director, approached the Missile Defense Agency and other DoD 
> components expressing worry that the hydrazine tank would survive reentry. 
> Presumably NRO had done its own modeling that justified the worry -- The 
> Aerospace Corporation, a traditional NRO support organization, would 
> likely have been responsible, and they generally do a competent job: 
> http://www.aero.org/capabilities/cords/index.html.
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