Re: [amsat-bb] FW: And on a different subject

["Luc Leblanc (VE2DWE)" <luclebla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Jan 2004 at 10:30, Mike Branda wrote:

 This popped up on another mail list.  Anyone know anything about this?
  
  
  
 Mike 
  
 
 "Just for those that don't know the USAF have been pushing for some time to
 take over NASA's responsibility for disseminating orbital data - a lot
 of which has been made available for the public to access over many years on
 the NASA OIG site - and from there many sites such as Celestrak and Heavens
 Above have also made use of it.

but as concerns have already been expressed by
various individuals within the Senate about national security issues
relating to orbital data and that future public access
 
 Things are changing and TLE may become a thing of the past - so wake up Rig
 members and be aware that you may not have a hobby soon. 
 
 Colin"
 
 
I understand the "concerns have already been expressed by various individuals within the Senate about 
national security issues relating to orbital data " But without overeacting what national security issues 
amateur satellite can cause?

As previously noted we are supposed to have a very vast audience on this reflector. Could be someone will 
take note of your comments and forwarded them to the Hasgards.

I just hope someone can take over the amateur keps, for the rest it's not in the best interest of NASA and 
ARISS to stop publishing keps on a free basis when we ask young folks to play with amateur satellite tracking 
software to learn how to see satellites in the sky? We are working backwards if we wants to gain any public 
support for space exploration and programs.

There is a lot of software available on the market to calculate satellites orbits as easy available as flight 
simulaters programs. If some individuals are concern with Goa'ulds mother ships threats just don't publish 
the military or other sensitive ones and let the international ones available to general public on a free 
basis,



CC. Colonel Jack Oneil SG-1

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