Fw: [MilCom] Steve Douglass, Black Projects,et al

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Subject: Re: [MilCom] Steve Douglass, Black Projects,et al


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> Subject: [MilCom] Steve Douglass, Black Projects,et al -- Monitoring 
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> OT to this list but it may be of interest.
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> I have moved up a few hundred km from the playground of  black a/c ( not 
> many of those over the UK ) and am looking at black projects in orbit.
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> On the basis of , "what you cant monitor , you might be able to see ", I 
> managed to grab a video of  a rather high flyer last week.
> Downrange by more than  800km , and travelling at about mach 27 , Lacrosse 
> 3 passed across the Lunar Disk  .
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> You can see the video here...
> http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/lacrosse.html
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> Theres also a link to an excellent article which relates how Ted Molczan 
> realised that a simple mission patch held the key to the classified 
> orbital plane of these NRO satellites.
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> At the bottom of the page , images of  Japan's top secret IGS 1B 
> surveillance bird , snapped as it passed over the UK.
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> John.
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