Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33, No. 6 6 May 1970
Possible Military Uses
Possible Military Uses
1. | The detection of Soviet spy and other satellites and orbit calibration of US spy-satellites. |
2. | The detection of Soviet space weapons and orbit calibration of similar US weapons. |
3. | The provision of the highly accurate information necessary to destroy such satellites and weapons. |
Information gathered by the Mount John Station will, it is said, be made available to Canterbury University on whose land the Station has been built. It can be pointed out, however, that similar provisions were built into the agreement which lead to the establishment of the Woodbourne base—from which no information has been forthcoming.