Luc...many times your comments are so naive...
A better forum for your collection of bits of information would be an internet BB in China, where they have already succeeded in shooting down one of their own satellites (making lots of "little satellites" BTW)
The Air Force Academy is producing engineers, most of them will not stay with the military. The US is short of "home-grown" engineers and welcomes this influx into our job markets.
You have your facts backwards...the world's military is currently assisting Amateur Radio, we are not providing them with anything they don't have already.
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Luc Leblanc" lucleblanc6@videotron.ca To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:25 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] ANSAT-NA VS MILITARY cooperation
Just to remind you as i already wrote...in the past any military VS
AMSAT'S
should be strongly condemned and even more by AMSAT-NA BOD.
Theses "cadets" are no learning to play chess and this " along with its
primary
science mission" take all his sense in the scope of the excerpt below!