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US Military Announces Plans for Satellite Orbiting the Moon
futurism ^ | VICTOR TANGERMANN

Posted on 03/04/2022 1:09:20 PM PST by BenLurkin

The two-minute video, titled “Cislunar Highway Patrol System (CHPS)” and uploaded by the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) this week, details the project.

Details on the planned project are sparse. The CHPS is a “spaceflight experiment designed to demonstrate foundational space domain awareness capabilities in the cislunar regime,” according to an extremely brief description on AFRL’s website.

The project will be a collaboration between a number of US military branches. The Air Force will work with other organizations and contractors to develop the CHPS satellite, while the US Space Command will figure out how to best make use of it...

(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: cislunar; highwaypatrol
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To: BenLurkin

They need to cancel that unless they can get it there with 0 carbon foot print.


21 posted on 03/04/2022 1:31:06 PM PST by pas
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To: BenLurkin

Guess they won’t be using Russian rockets.


22 posted on 03/04/2022 1:36:33 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! A 70's)
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To: MercyFlush
Baby steps on the way to colonizing the Moon.

Which will never happen. The energy needed to move massive necessary resources to make life even viable will make this impossible.

When we did go, we were the equivalent of an overnight bag with only bare necessities. And that was only for a couple of days.

What makes it feasible to leave a wholly habitable environment for an environment which won't support 3 seconds of life?

23 posted on 03/04/2022 1:39:23 PM PST by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: BenLurkin

This has Jack to do with the moon. This all about persistent aerial surveillance to be used on Americans. First it was Cessnas, Drones, and now satellites. Skynet complete.


24 posted on 03/04/2022 1:50:15 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: chuckb87
Space is the ultimate "high ground".

The Russians are experiencing some of that right now. In space, the earth holds few secrets.

Having a satellite around the Moon makes it much, much harder to destroy.

Lots of anti-satellite weapons for low earth orbit exist now.

25 posted on 03/04/2022 1:57:03 PM PST by marktwain
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To: wally_bert

Don’t forget the Mark IX Hawks.


26 posted on 03/04/2022 1:58:22 PM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: real saxophonist

I had.

Appreciate the reminder.

The eagle has a better look.


27 posted on 03/04/2022 1:59:52 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: wally_bert

I liked her better in ‘Au Pair Girls’.


28 posted on 03/04/2022 2:00:30 PM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: BenLurkin

It so we can spy on the CHICOMS when they do those Pink Floyd (dark side) moon trips. You just know they are up to something sneaky...


29 posted on 03/04/2022 2:00:54 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: wally_bert

30 posted on 03/04/2022 2:04:12 PM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps they’re searching for Alice Kramden.


31 posted on 03/04/2022 2:07:25 PM PST by mkmensinger
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To: BenLurkin

Cislunar... vs Translunar?


32 posted on 03/04/2022 2:13:08 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: The Louiswu

This is needed. On Coast to Coast AM several years ago a guest told the audience how aliens were building bases on the side of the moon not facing the earth. They are preparing for invasion, meaning all earth creatures must perish. Honestly, this was on the radio, it must be true.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1275853/alien-city-moon-dark-side-of-moon-nasa-conspiracy-theory-aliens-ufo


33 posted on 03/04/2022 2:26:16 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: MercyFlush

Clementine was there long ago. Oddly enough, a CIA asset.


34 posted on 03/04/2022 2:45:54 PM PST by GingisK
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To: wally_bert

Whoa. She was even cuter than I remember! Thanks for sharing that!


35 posted on 03/04/2022 2:48:31 PM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: The Louiswu

“don’t really need it, don’t know what it’s for but someone is giving us some cash to blow So…..”

Yep... Makes me sick.


36 posted on 03/04/2022 3:03:47 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

And metallic outfits. Now…where is Colonel Lake?


37 posted on 03/04/2022 3:22:13 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: BenLurkin
the US Space Command will figure out how to best make use of it

Shouldn't we figure that out before we fund it?

38 posted on 03/04/2022 3:26:30 PM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is Eric Estrada going to be involved.😏


39 posted on 03/04/2022 4:10:47 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: MercyFlush

You have a point and so does she.
Two of them.😁


40 posted on 03/04/2022 4:15:08 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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