Re: Level of Detail?

[ElevenMike@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-04-15 13:09:02 EDT, you write:

>Okay - almost anything is technically possible but you have to make sure
that
>the launch doesn't attract attention.  The earlier suggestion for a ComSat
>that just happened to "fail" meets that goal but the size of vehicle for the
>LEO-L5-LEO would attract some serious unwanted attention.  If not from NASA
>(What the hell or you/did you launch?) then from the other space power (What
>the hell did the Americans launch?).

   But this DID happen.  Twice, I think.  Right now there are at least two
ComSats up in GEOSYNC orbit that didn't do ANYTHING upon arrival on station.
 They never deployed their antennas, never dumped the protective shroud, and
never talked back to ground control.  They are wasted money.  Corperate
Money, but I don't remember whose.

   Also, it happened BEFORE the Russians had become Russians again.  I don't
have a lot of data on this, but do remember Tom Brokaw telling me about it on
the Evening News.  1984 - 85.  The ComSat's builder screwed up.

   Just trying to use real-world events to support my game.

Scott Hann