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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Relative costs of Geostar and Navstar
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 15:51:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 15:51:26 1984
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This isn't technical, but it's not a flame either.  Navstar and Geostar
are designed for very different missions.  Navstar is worldwide, Geostar
is North America.  Also, much more fundimental, Navstar is designed to 
fight wars with.  It is designed to survive hostile attack by intelligent,
powerful enemies.  This sort of thing costs a lot of money and has
enormous impact on design.