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Rapid Fire 12/17/05

* Space spiders spin sats?

* Darpa AI chief joins Yahoo! (background here)

* Tomcat's last call

* Secrecy vs. biodefense

* Guided weapons: a history

* One Excel spreadsheet, 800+ satellites

* Pricing out the Navy's super-carrier

(Big ups: JQP)

Comments

In general I do not support this blog's liberal defeatist political bent. Putting politics before country in time of war is conteptable. If, however, you're interested in a thoughtful perspective on the retirement of the F-14 you might find this useful: http://www.flightjournal.com/fj/articles/f14f18/f14f18_1.asp

Posted by: Dfens at December 19, 2005 5:53 PM

If I'm not mistaken, NASA has been releasing two-line element sets for the SGP4 proagator for all of these satellites for a long time. What's the big deal about some lovey-dovey scientists putting it into a spreadshhet? I'll bet thousands of amatuer astronomers have already made their own and some prbobaly post them on the web.

Posted by: rutty at December 17, 2005 8:04 PM

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