Wednesday, February 20, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
DoD: Defense Department Background Briefing on the Satellite Intercept Attempt - '...Each day there will be one window. It will only exist for a matter of tens of seconds, and so you have to be at exactly the right place, exactly the right time, and all criteria have to line up exactly right. Okay, so this is a very, you know, precise -- unlike a tactical activity where any place at sea and we get a target and we're tracking it and as long as it's within range, we can -- this is more like a much more precise launch than you would normally tactically have. Okay? So we'll work our way through that all the way through the day...'
