Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
Posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Under a veil of secrecy for an unknown US government customer, the clouds cleared just enough to finally launch CLIO on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V booster at 8:10 p.m. EDT September 16, 2014 from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
A series of ugly thunderstorms with a deluge of rain shows repeatedly passed by the launch pad forcing a weather related delay from the initial daylight launch time of 5:44 p.m.
Normally, even the highly secretive US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) claims ownership of their satellites named with what seems to be a random numbering scheme.
But not for CLIO. The only publicly released information is that CLIO was built by Lockheed Martin and derived from their commercial A2100 series satellite bus used for commercial telecommunications satellites among others.
“It is an honor to work with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and all of our mission partners to launch this very important satellite,” said Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president, Atlas and Delta Programs, in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Looks like a Minaret. Based on a communications satellite. Pretty easy to figure out. The administration developed it for the Muslims to continually broadcast the call to prayer to areas not currently served by a mosque.
Mystery solved.
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A satellite guy named Sponnick!!! The perfect man for the job.
CLIO is going to be the new homo channel next to BRAVO and LOGO
CLIO will be used to provide Psychic advice for people.
Clio prank calls lady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onrAGd8CNA
Not to be picky, but the photo kind of shows a clearish skies, daylight view.....................Just saying :)
Just NASA spending taxpayers money on improving the self esteem of islamics.
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