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FIVE ODD-LOOKING SATELLITES FROM NASA'S PAST
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Posted on 06/22/2016 4:28:52 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Vanguard is still in orbit!
Wow!
To: MtnClimber
All pretty primitive compared to satellites today. The SIRIUS radio satellites have the greatest total power density on the surface of the Earth of any satellite system.
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:32:01 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Y wing fighters always looked pretty strange to me...
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:34:14 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: MtnClimber
In what way is Vanguard I “odd looking”? That’s like calling George Washington an “odd looking” President. I was alive when Vanguard I went up, and that picture is seared in my memory as the true and proper image of a satellite.
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:34:16 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Peter W. Kessler
Vanguard is still in orbit!
It is space junk today. I expect that the EPA is trying to figure out a way to fine the citizens whose tax money paid for this litter.
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:35:28 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
The Echo satellite concept is particularly cool. I expect it may be resurrected, someday.
To: rightwingcrazy
Communication systems have bounced signals off the moon too.
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:43:06 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I saw something on Haleakala like that.
To: MtnClimber
Vanguard is still in orbit!
It is space junk today.
...
It will be in orbit for almost another 200 years. Somebody will grab it one of these days.
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:48:16 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: rightwingcrazy
We now have inflatable space station modules. Similar to Echo but for a different purpose.
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posted on
06/22/2016 4:52:13 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Moonman62
It is space junk today.I fell a song coming on. ( You can skip the ad. ) The "Soviet Sputnik" is mentioned, but not Vanguard. Such is glory.
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:03:58 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:05:59 PM PDT
by
RBStealth
(--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns, and kneeling at the feet of Mary)
To: Peter W. Kessler
My dad, Roger Easton, designed Vanguard 1 (and then helped create GPS). The first six seconds of this video show Vanguard 1 a week or two before its launch outside our home in Oxon Hill, Md. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLSW1U1t1U
I’m wearing the red coat. The website for my book on GPS is www.gpsdeclassified.com
To: MtnClimber
How are these odd in looks?
Very simple shapes mostly, and what I expect!
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:19:42 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Richard from IL
That is so cool. Free Republic has the finest people on earth! Or in space! Thanks for that story.
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:20:45 PM PDT
by
squarebarb
( Fairy tales are basically true.)
To: MtnClimber
Vanguard 1 Launch date March 17, 1958, 12:15:41 UTC
Wow! It’s been up there 58 years!
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:21:19 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
To: MtnClimber
Meanwhile in the 'UK...
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:26:54 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(If Trump loses, America dies)
To: Moonman62
If you really think about it, a spacesuit is an inflatable module. They just made it room size. ;-)
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:30:45 PM PDT
by
r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
To: Richard from IL
That’s very cool! You’re so lucky!
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posted on
06/22/2016 5:46:08 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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