Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Sun synchronous orbits Summary: wouldn't there be some disadvantages too Message-ID: <8143@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 23:14:09 GMT References: <684@pyuxd.UUCP> <1988Dec4.225033.18207@utzoo.uucp> <6464@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <12418@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 8 I understand why the sun synchronous orbit is desirable for spy photography, but wouldn't there be exploitable weakness in it too? If all your pix of the Leningrad shipyard show it at 2PM local, aren't there games they can play with light and shadow to camouflage stuff? -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding)