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Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities? |
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I took my F.A. text from SOLRAD 1 verbatim. GRAB is SOLRADs 1-4B, which I wrote, and which constitute their own program. Since all the sources and language have already passed muster, I figured I might as well make a Good Topic out of these first five probes. -- Neopeius ( talk) 05:20, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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I'll get to this shortly.--
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@ Sturmvogel 66: Thanks so much! No hurry. :) -- Neopeius ( talk) 04:05, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
There are three different references to "History of the Poppy Satellite System". Are these all the same document? I'm reluctant to just elide the refs, in case one has fewer redactions than another. Ideally we'd link to the best version, and the other mentions would refer to that. -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 16:17, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
The article says "American space launches were not classified at the time", but I don't think that communicates what is intended. The launch is never classified (they have to file a NOTAR, and in any event a massive rocket taking of from Florida is no secret). What is potentially classified is the orbit of the satellite (which is the case now for NRO satellites). Is this sentence intended to mean the US published details of the orbits of all their satellites (if so, we should say that), or does it mean that the US thought the Soviets would be able to track the satellite anyway by radar - and thus they needed to fly with the buddy satellite, close enough that the two couldn't be distinguished by radar (and if so, we should say that). -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 16:40, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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Improved to Good Article status by Neopeius ( talk). Self-nominated at 17:15, 15 December 2020 (UTC).
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Neopeius: Nice work on bringing this to GA. In checking for copyright violations, I did not consider the email exchange brought up the copyright violation detector. That is not a reliable source and looks like it's copying from us.
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@ Epicgenius: Haha. I'm famous! :) Thank you very much. -- Neopeius ( talk) 20:09, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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