[65015] in Cypherpunks
[less paranoid NOISE] Re: Odd Satellite observations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F. Fricker)
Mon Sep 9 12:56:43 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 09:31:11 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Ok well like I said it was just paranoid noise. So the sats can locate ships
at sea. I wonder what else?
At 01:58 PM 9/9/96 GMT, Jim wrote:
>On Sun, 08 Sep 1996 11:45:45 -0700, I wrote:
>
>>I saw three satellites gliding across the sky (east to west) in
>>a tight right triangle formation. The entire formation was not
>>bigger than my hand at arms length. Has anyone else observed
>>this?
>
>John: You probably saw one of the NOSS (Naval Ocean Surveillance
>System) constellations. There are several of these groupings -- all
>in triangular arrays. They use some form of interferometry to locate
>ships at sea.
>
>Jim
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