[GreenKeys] OT great guide to SATCOM and thousands of floating needles in...

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

yea  an overall bad  idea.  
 
 
what is amazing is how much 'stuff' is up there floating around. 
 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 6/3/2014 10:04:03 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
pete at petelancashire.com writes:

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-orbitalDebris2013-1
3)  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_ (mailto: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_ 
(http://www.sac.gov.in/SACSITE/Satcom_Overview.doc) 




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