Re: DS2/SG2 artillery

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:21:53 -0500 (EST), Roger Books writes:
>On 29-Nov-99 at 11:19, Ryan M Gill (monty@arcadia.turner.com) wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Los wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > I still don't get the assumption that something fired form 200
miles
>> > (ortillery) up will be more accurate (or cost effective) than
something
>> > fired from 10 miles away (SP arty) from the ground. I can't make
that
>> > leap of faith very easily since ground based fire technology wion't
be
>> > moving forward just as well as space-based fire control.
>> 
>> It may not be as acurrate, but it will have a much longer flight
time. 
>> You wanna wait 40 minutes for a  firemission to land fromthe time you

>> request it?
>
>My question is why would your ortillery fire from 200 miles away.  We
>have what, about 3 miles of atmosphere?  That space based artillery
>could be 5 miles away.  As for flight times, both are going to be
>insignificant.
>

We've got a lot more atmosphere than that.  Planes routinely fly at
37,000 feet (~7 miles up).  Geo sync orbit is at 22,236 miles.	A lot
higher than 200.

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