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With due respect, I think the connection between Ariel and a recce sat programme would be tenuous to non existent.The lack of reality in the programme can be shown by the fact that no camera was chosen, no means of powering the satellite was worked out, no means of storing the data had been devised, and no means of retrieving the data had been established.King Hele's paper laid out some possibilities, but no actual hardware of any sort was even discussed let alone put togther in any coherent package.Any Blue Streak based launcher using HTP upper stages would have been struggling, to put it mildly, to place any significant payload into geosynchronous orbit.
With due respect, I think the connection between Ariel and a recce sat programme would be tenuous to non existent.
The lack of reality in the programme can be shown by the fact that no camera was chosen, no means of powering the satellite was worked out, no means of storing the data had been devised, and no means of retrieving the data had been established.
King Hele's paper laid out some possibilities, but no actual hardware of any sort was even discussed let alone put togther in any coherent package.
Any Blue Streak based launcher using HTP upper stages would have been struggling, to put it mildly, to place any significant payload into geosynchronous orbit.
