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- From: wlmss@peg.pegasus.oz.au
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Date: 14 Dec 92 23:19 EST
- Subject: Re: Relay to Follow Galileo?
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- Subject: Re: Relay to Follow Galileo?
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- Further to the above I hear per email ( and I thank the Sender):
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- > This was discussed to death several months ago, so people probably didn't
- > re-open the discussion. The optimum time to launch a relay satellite is
- > NOW (galileo is on the optimal hoffman trajectory). Launching it next year
- > will take considerably more fuel, and no such craft is even on the planning
- > books.
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- This is astonishing! Surely to NOT chase the thing is too costly! Dosen't
- the media, public & govt understand?
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- If a relay is feasible the issue is the need to alert the uninformed wider
- public to what is being lost. The media. The public. And what about
- commercial sponsorship? Have any or all channels been exhausted? What if a
- few high profile persons spoke up at once? To think the galilean vistas were
- within reach of humanity - and now this!
- **** Lawrie Williams
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