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Missing: One Russian spy satellite - Advanced 'eye in the sky' lost after descent to Earth
MSNBC (excerpt) ^
| February 15, 2005
| James Oberg
Posted on 02/15/2005 6:26:52 PM PST by HAL9000
Excerpt -
HOUSTON - On the snowy steppes near Orenburg, southeast of the Ural Mountains in Siberia, teams of military search and rescue experts have spent the last month scanning the ground with metal detectors and probing the snow drifts for suspicious metal objects. Their quest: Russia's most advanced spy satellite, which hasn't been seen since it came down to Earth on Jan. 9.
Midwinter cold, short periods of daylight, and blowing snow slowed the teams at every step, and now they appear to have given up.
No official announcement of the loss has been made. Observers speculate that's because Moscow is less worried about not finding the missing spy cameras and exposed film than about the potential catastrophe if agents of some other nation find and exploit the contents of the capsule. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: missing; russia; satellite; siberia; spy; spysatellite
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posted on
02/15/2005 6:26:57 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Hate it when that happens.
2
posted on
02/15/2005 6:28:01 PM PST
by
silent_jonny
(Quiet, you!)
To: HAL9000
Hmmm . . . . wonder what it had been taking pictures of.
3
posted on
02/15/2005 6:28:51 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: HAL9000
4
posted on
02/15/2005 6:29:18 PM PST
by
pbear8
(Rummy will do pre-marital counseling for Charles and Camilla - National Enquirer)
To: BenLurkin
Hmmm . . . . wonder what it had been taking pictures of.Me.
They like to watch when I'm with a new chick.
5
posted on
02/15/2005 6:30:09 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: Lazamataz
So . . .you and Natasha . . .
6
posted on
02/15/2005 6:32:33 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: HAL9000
"God help you if that thing was carrying the Spice Channel."
7
posted on
02/15/2005 6:32:52 PM PST
by
silent_jonny
(Quiet, you!)
To: HAL9000
What u mean I not sposed push dat button!?!?!
8
posted on
02/15/2005 6:33:24 PM PST
by
Syntyr
To: HAL9000
9
posted on
02/15/2005 6:35:04 PM PST
by
Noachian
(We're all one judge away from tyranny.)
To: HAL9000
Do they really still use film with reconnaissance satellites? I would have thought even the Russians would have digitized, encrypted and transmitted the data years ago!
10
posted on
02/15/2005 6:35:21 PM PST
by
steve86
To: HAL9000
"Andre...don't tell me you've lost another one?"
11
posted on
02/15/2005 6:36:59 PM PST
by
Cornpone
(Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
To: HAL9000
I got it, but I ain't givin it up!
No siree!
12
posted on
02/15/2005 6:37:09 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: HAL9000
YES... this was our warning to Putin that he needs to end his move towards Tyranny. Yes, I personally hopped up and down at the perfect time and place to cause the Earth to wobble and knock the satellite out of its proper orbit
13
posted on
02/15/2005 6:37:10 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Old Media is at war with the New Media...... We are all Matt Drudges now.)
To: BenLurkin
I'll go for her, but first she's got to let go of the van de graff generator.
14
posted on
02/15/2005 6:38:46 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: BearWash
Well they're still flying Soyuz capsules and that basic technology dates back to the time of our Gemini program.
To: BearWash
Hmmmmmm,
Likely it had some other interesting ablilities.
Nuke mines, sat killer, whatever.
16
posted on
02/15/2005 6:39:08 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: pbear8
It's in my backyard. Unless you live next door to me, it's not. I'm pretty sure it's that pile of scrap metal parked in my neighbors front yard. That would explain why a Russian guy moved in on the other side.
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posted on
02/15/2005 6:40:09 PM PST
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: HAL9000
18
posted on
02/15/2005 6:40:33 PM PST
by
null and void
(Psst. Mohammad was planted by the Mossad to oppress arabs. It's still working. Pass it on...)
To: BenLurkin
Well, the whole thing sounds like a nice cover-up for major drunkenness and embezzlement. The satellite never existed, or was a cheap dummy. Now it's reckoning time - and of course, it conveniently disappears.
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posted on
02/15/2005 6:43:48 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: HAL9000
"Are you telling me that you lost another submarine satellite?"
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posted on
02/15/2005 6:47:15 PM PST
by
dfwright
(Optimist: Glass Half full - Pessimist: Glass Half Empty - Engineer: Glass too large.)
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