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Atlas 5 rocket launches secret satellite
AP ^ | 09 Sep 2009 | AP

Posted on 09/13/2009 11:04:16 AM PDT by BGHater

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To: Straight Vermonter

I wonder how close 2 satellites on that same orbit could be without affecting each other.

If one satellite is over a cigar store in Kampala, Uganda, for example, and another is over a barber shop on the next block, are they too close to each other?


21 posted on 09/15/2009 4:52:59 AM PDT by samtheman
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Good question. In Arthur C. Clarke’s book “The Fountains of Paradise” they actually link all of the satellites together into one continuous band around the Earth.


22 posted on 09/15/2009 6:36:47 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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