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West Ford
A passive communications concept developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory for the Department of Defense in 1963. The reflector was to consist of a belt of 480 million of hair-thin copper filaments each about 0.75 inch long. Radio astronomers opposed the idea, believing it might affect their research. However, the copper cloud quickly dispersed rendering it useless for communications and no threat to astronomy.
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