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Re: Dip-meter again
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2012 Apr 11, 08:51 -0300
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2012 Apr 11, 08:51 -0300
On 11-Apr-12, at 1:16 AM, Alexandre E Eremenko wrote: >> I mentioned the Transit system, but we established it was not >> operational prior to 1964, > > And Transit was unlikely to be relied on by the Russians in the case > of > a nuclear war:-) > It seems that the Russians did not have their own sat system till > 1980-s. The first prototype Parus (the Soviet military system patterned after Transit) satellite was launched in 1974. Deployment of a separate civilian system, called Tsikada, began in 1978. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca | | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ | | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 | | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 | | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 | | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http:// www.fredericton.ca/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
