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***WATCH LIVE*** Delta IV NROL-47 Live Launch From Vandenberg (T-4 minutes)
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| Jan 12, 2018
| 23 ABC News | KERO
Posted on 01/12/2018 1:58:02 PM PST by ransomnote
Yesterday's rocket launch was scrubbed. Launch is now schedule for about 4 minutes from posting this.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: deltaiv; nrol47; rocket; rocketlaunch
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To: ransomnote
What’s the payload?...............
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:04:46 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
secret. Said to be spy communications but payload is secret. Patch for mission shows a knight wielding a sword to slay a attacking dragon - the dragon has sword wounds. The prior launch of this type of rocket had a knight wielding a sword and a less menacing dragon without wounds. Supposedly these flight patches have meaning.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:09:45 PM PST
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: Red Badger
Miscellaneous stuff DJT is using to play with Kim U-fat’s head.
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:12:22 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
To: ransomnote
Oh I’m sure they have a meaning.
Dragon, eh? Hmmmm.....
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:12:45 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:15:44 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ransomnote
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:16:53 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: blueunicorn6
Freaked me out when the excess hydrogen burned off!
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:17:19 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: ransomnote
Flames shot all over lower half at liftoff.
Thought it was going to blow up.
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:17:21 PM PST
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
To: tennmountainman
Earlier they announced that “sparklers” would ignite to burn off excess hydrogen. Even having heard that - those flames didn’t look like sparklers but I guess in terms of fuel comparison, the flames were sparklers compared with launch fuel.
To: SaveFerris
The thumbnail for the video on Youtube shows the patch.
To: ransomnote
To: ransomnote
Yeah. That looked scary.
Was it a private company that launched it?
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:22:35 PM PST
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
To: tennmountainman; tet68
Thought the same. That looked quite wrong at first.
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:25:45 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
To: ransomnote; null and void
Haven’t seen it yet.
[ Vandenberg ]
Ah, that means polar orbit as I understand it. That’s how the Keyhole series were launched a lot of the time, if not always. I’m thinking KH-11 and KH-12 series of days gone by.
So it’s a spy bird at a minimum; the wounds are interesting (given your description of the patch)
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:26:03 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: tennmountainman
Launched from US Airforce base and seems to have a NASA type patch.
To: ransomnote
Thanks for the thread, I pulled it up at T-1.
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posted on
01/12/2018 2:28:04 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
To: ctdonath2
To: tet68
Yep.
They had a camera flash when it was pretty high and that was interesting.
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posted on
01/12/2018 6:10:29 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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