[GreenKeys] OT great guide to SATCOM and thousands of floating needles in space? OUCH!

[Pete Lancashire]

What a disaster

In my project to scan and eventually put on a web site all the McGraw Hill
Electronic's I've run across Project West Ford and the protests from just
about everyone, except non technical people.

>From the Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

Fifty years later in 2013, some of the dipoles that did not deploy
correctly still remain in clumps and these make up a small amount of
orbital debris that is tracked by NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office.[12]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford#cite_note-networkWorld2013-12>
[13]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford#cite_note-orbitalDebris2013-13>
Forty
six clumps are known to remain in orbit as of 2013.[13]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford#cite_note-orbitalDebris2013-13>




On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

>   OT great guide to SATCOM and thousands of floating needles in space?
> OUCH!
>  OUCH! ... of particular interest is the terrifying thought of the 1963
> launch
>
> "In 1963, US Air Force under *Project West Ford* launched an orbital belt
> of small needles at 2000 miles height to act as a passive radio reflector.
> Speech in digitized form was transmitted intelligently via this belt of
> needles. However, further work in this area was discontinued due to strong
> protests from the astronomers. "
>
> By the way a good quick guide to satcom stuff..
>
> www.sac.gov.in/SACSITE/Satcom_Overview.doc
>
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