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Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #371
SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 371
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Re: I want to go to orbit...
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In article <2680@ke4zv.UUCP>, gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
>
>The amateur radio satellites called PACSAT are on orbit and operating
>using this technology. AMSAT, the amateur radio satellite organization,
>started the craze for light satellites by demonstrating the practicallity
>of small, light, spacecraft for remote communications, termed Microsats.
>In this series are store and forward digital communications satellites,
>a satellite with an earth observing camera,
What's the resolution on the earth observing camera? What does it see? Just
weather? Or something better?
>.... Ground terminals can be carried in a briefcase.
Could you post more details? It'd be real interesting to cruise around on a
boat and be able to pick up the weather off AMSAT? Any other info (like printed
sources) would be most appreciated.
Doug
Signature envy: quality of some people to put 24+ lines in their .sigs
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Date: 5 Apr 91 18:51:28 GMT
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Subject: Re: Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada
In article <1991Apr5.143519.25044@ecf.utoronto.ca> murty@ecf.toronto.edu (MURTY Hema Sandhyarani) writes:
> Yesterday there was another underground nuclear test in
> Nevada. Why are we allowing this to continue?
>
> I am sure that if all the readers of sci.space got
> together and denounces such tests by countries of
> the world, they would have to stop.
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I think there is a possiblity that you might be over-estimating
the prestige sci.space readers have in the nuclear arms-testing community.
