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What I meant was a galaxy of say, ten satelites per orbit path. Put ten each in a dozen or so orange slice orbits. Then any location is only 9 minutes away from the next available unit...

Lots o' jobs building them.

Too bad we have to buy the tungsten from China, can't re-open the US mines in the California desert, might hurt a turtle...

[Phsstpok]

What I meant was a galaxy of say, ten satelites per orbit path. Put ten each in a dozen or so orange slice orbits. Then any location is only 9 minutes away from the next available unit...

the ideal situation. Keep it off line until a crisis develops and deploy it with an aerospace plane and you have the best of both worlds. Or deploy one payload for a specific purpose. On a given mission you don't load up a B52 with enough bombs to hit target 1 (if you only have one target) 8 or ten times. Three of four, mayber, but not eight or ten. Anything worth bombing is worth bombing twice, to paraphrase.