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Largest Rocket Ever Launched From Vandenberg AFB Makes Lift-Off
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| August 28, 2013 11:05 AM
Posted on 08/28/2013 12:49:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
with a $1 billion spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) “in support of national defense,” With this one they'll be able to do face recognition of you walking around in your backyard and tell the time from your wristwatch. Gotta stop those Christian terrorists donchano.
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08/28/2013 2:43:45 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that!)
To: Cboldt
Maybe. Zhirinovsky threatened us with something like that a while back, if I recall rightly. Can America afford to be left behind in the space magnifying-glass race?
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08/28/2013 2:49:19 PM PDT
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OldNewYork
(Biden '13. Impeach now.)
To: OldNewYork
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Can America afford to be left behind in the space magnifying-glass race? --
;-)
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08/28/2013 3:00:45 PM PDT
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Cboldt
To: luv2lurkhere
There was a shuttle launching facility at Vandenberg, SLC 6. Apparently after the Challenger disaster they scrapped it due to safety issues and politics. They’ve modified it and today it’s used for the Delta IV launches. One of the original missions for the Shuttle was to launch from Vandenberg, snag a Soviet satellite in polar orbit, and return to California all in one orbit. That's why the Shuttle had larger than necessary wings, so it could make the glide back to California.
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posted on
08/28/2013 3:13:35 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Sirius Lee
Yes, they can image 5-6 inches.
Obama sees everything.
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posted on
08/28/2013 3:16:35 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: eclecticEel
Once it reaches orbit in about two days Do they proof these things before printing them? If it wasn't in orbit already it would be a pile of rubble in the middle of the Mojave by now.
I suspect that would it makes more sense if it read:
Once it reaches final orbit in about two days.
Satellites are commonly launched into a low parking orbit before using an attached maneuvering stage to place the package into a higher, circular final orbit. Things launched from Vandenberg usually go into a polar orbit and placing them in a parking orbit first allows observations to be made of the actual orbital parameters before "tweaking" the satellite into it's exact final position.
Think of it as taking a train from New York to LA and then taking a taxi to your hotel downtown.
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
08/28/2013 3:46:44 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.
the classified payload is expected to be able to distinguish details back on Earth as minute as the make and model of an automobile
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posted on
08/28/2013 8:43:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: BenLurkin
Doesn’t look so big to me!
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08/29/2013 7:42:20 AM PDT
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Fido969
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