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Subject: Re: re: # of satellites - (nf)
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ism780!martin    Aug 16 13:08:00 1984

I believe you can get the current number of orbiting payloads and/or junk
by calling the Space Defense Center in Cheyene Mountain.  I don't think
the number of payloads is classified.

When I was a programmer in the USAF working at the SDC, a friend and I once
put the coordinates of his garage roof into the Look Angle computation
program.  Out came look angles for all the satellites (the unclassified ones,
of course) oriented to his garage.  That night we set up a small telescope
up there and were able to find most of the ones we had listed quite easily.

You might be able to get similar information for your garage.

		martin smith, INTERACTIVE Systems