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

[John Locker]

"too highly classified"

Covers a mutitude of sins Jim !


John






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Oberg" <jeoberg at comcast.net>
To: <thomsona at flash.net>; "John Locker" <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk>; 
"FPSpace" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Burnt Frost starts to melt.. .!


>
> 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.. .!
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 8/22/08, John Locker <john at satcom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Under a Freedom Of  Information Act request Yousaf  Butt
>>> has come up with some interesting information.
>>
>> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
>> FPSPACE mailing list
>> FPSPACE at friends-partners.org
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo/fpspace
>
> _______________________________________________
> FPSPACE mailing list
> FPSPACE at friends-partners.org
> http://www.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo/fpspace
>
>