Message posted by Thor on January 07, 2003 at 14:52:07 PST:

The Rhyolite (later renamed to Aquacade, when the former name became public) are geostationary signals intelligence satellites. Their purpose was to intercept commumnications transmissions, especially line-of-sight microwave links and missile telemetry interception, from the Soviet Union and China. Unlike the Canyon SIGINT crafts, they were positioned in geostationary orbit.

In Reply to: Aquacade? posted by MC1223 on January 07, 2003 at 13:53:14 PST:

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