Hey now, does anyone besides me remember past posts, regarding DOJ/FBI's own malware, CIPAV? It was a capable malware that knew the difference between Windows, Mac, & Linux (BTW-did anyone ever solve the legal dillema of scrubbing a customer pc and finding it? Do we remove it as we are paid to & obstruct justice or leave it and do a partial job?) Next, I recall a recent find, within about a year, an equally capable malware, found by F-Secure, in Bogota, which reconfigured itself, prior to attacking either of the three. Obviously, linux malware infestation by governments and otherwise is certainly possible!

Why not transfer the ship from the USN, to the US Border Patrol and do a 'little real fishing' for drug runners & smugglers? It may be a failed design from a contract contest, but it certainly could be useful elsewhere, far more sensible, to me.

For those of you who have WXTrack or gPredict or even the rusty old DOS version QuikTrak 4. Here are the 2-Line track elements (from celestrak.com) to plug in to the above software or similar and you can plot the course and collision possibilities yourselves. (Start of Sat ID Line) GALAXY 15 (G-15) (Start of Line 1) 1 28884U 05041A 10127.51136922 .00000076 00000-0 10000-3 0 8255 (Start of Line 2) 2 28884 0.1250 77.0169 0002855 329.6075 230.3636 1.00283287 16733 If you need further help understanding these NORAD 2-Line elesets, please see this page: http://celestrak.com/columns/v04n03/#FAQ01 for the manual key in entry in your tracking software. Depending on available sunlight angle and sat size, you can also plot the times and locations in the sky of when it is visible, for like re-entry burn up. That's if you happen to be lucky/unlucky to be close enough to see it. From my "Ham radio sat days", it is best to get fresh tracking data, every week, for the best results. I did a lot of this in '94 or '96 and back then it was pretty cool to run a digital signal from a pc linked hand held radio in Kansas and bounce it off of the Soviet MIR space station or sometimes the non-military shuttle hops, just to get to Chicago, IL! Good luck and happy sat hunting!