Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Info wanted on Atlantis "secret" military satellite payload Message-ID: <1988Dec4.225033.18207@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <684@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 22:50:33 GMT In article <684@pyuxd.UUCP> pat@pyuxd.UUCP (Pat M. Iurilli) writes: >Does anyone out there in netland know any details on the so-called "secret" >military satellite payload that the Atlantis is carrying and will deploy? The giveaway is the low-altitude (well, relatively low, it's high for the shuttle) and high-inclination orbit. This is a spysat of some kind, very probably a KH-12. It's a fairly good bet that the KH-12 looks a lot like the Hubble telescope. -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu