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Subject: Re: Retrograde orbits are now approved (what could possibly go wrong?)
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"Sylvia Else" <syl...@not.here.invalid> wrote in message 
news:9uc873F2i5U1@mid.individual.net...

>
> Orbits criss-cross anyway. As I've pointed out already, two satellites in 
> near polar orbits, neither being retrograde, can nevertheless be 
> travelling in almost completely opposite directions when they pass. How 
> does having some high-inclination retrograde orbits make the situation 
> worse in any practical sense?
>

That's like a boxer saying I can punch you but you can't punch back.