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.
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