Talk:Galactic Radiation and Background

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Good article
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)

Duplicate refs
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)

Classified "launch"
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)