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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
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Subject: Re: space news from Aug 14 AW&ST
Summary: STS 28 didn't carry RMS arm. Probably was KH 12.
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Date: 26 Sep 89 12:57:32 GMT
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In article <1989Sep25.014005.1837@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
writes:

>STS-28 deploys advanced imaging spysat Aug 8.  Satellite is an upgraded
>version of the KH-11 [i.e. the KH-12?  not clear].

The "better means to transmit its images to US military field units at
sea or in such places as West Germany" (under the TENCAP programme) and
the "greater maneuvering capability"  were both advertised properties
of the KH-12, so it probably is a KH-12.  The name Strategic Response
System is new to me though.

>  This bird is at a lower
> altitude than the Lacrosse launched last year, and was deployed using the
> arm, which Lacrosse wasn't. 

Article in fact says it was other way round.

Interestingly, AW&ST says 1988 Titan 34D launch from VAFB might have
carried a KH 11, echoing the recent posting from John Pike. This was the
one originally labelled as an SDS, though AW&ST had no item on it at
all as far as I know.

>"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

OK. So I'm ignorant. Who is D.D. Harriman? Meanwhile, I was beginning to
believe that Henry's summaries might be the on-line version of AW&ST
mentioned in "2010" when I noticed a recent ad therein, which says the
whole text is available on line to suitably rich subscribers. Same goes
for some other McGraw Hill trade journals.

Nick
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