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Nov 6, 2023Liked by Nick Stevens Graphics

What kind of weather satellite would need a booster that big? Why use such a constrained resource for that?

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I have no idea!

Internally they presented weather and Earth observation satellites as having delivered good benefits. Perhaps they were trying to sell the idea that a really big one would be really good...

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“ N1-13L can be used in the first stage of the IOC programme to launch the ICBM system.”. I’m sorry, launch the what now?!!

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That bit I could not make sense of, sorry! Acronyms are always a problem.

I'm guessing some sort of military payload, but I could be wrong...

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Hello.

You have mentioned the RGANTD site, with which I have long been fighting now and am not capable of cooperating with.

How could one possibly reverse engineer this reference (for example) F213_O5-1_D228_L42, or find similar ones?

Nothing I have tried seems to work!

Could I hope for any help in that matter?

Thanks and cheers!

P.S. Outstanding work!

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The reference system is described in my collected documents on Gum Road.

https://starbase1.gumroad.com/l/RGANTD

(You don't need to buy the product, you can see it on that page)

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