JFerio Wrote:There is another aspect of dropping product from orbit... we wouldn't want to demonstrate to everyone how easy a precision orbital strike can be.The feck? I was thinking more along the lines of an over-grown Apollo/Soyuz style landing. Not kinetic-kill-everything-within-five-miles-impact.
I can imagine showing that you can drop it to within, say, a few miles of target would make most countries nervous about Fen capabilities...
Besides, didn't we all go through this phase back in the Fifties and Sixties? I think that animated film Iron Giant did an excellent job in portraying just how paranoid some people were about Sputnik. I would like to hope that the people in general would learn from history, especially when it as recent as that.