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Titan 4 finally fueled for secret satellite launch
SPACEFLIGHT NOW ^ | Apr 26, 2005 | Justin Ray

Posted on 04/28/2005 7:52:30 AM PDT by Magnum44

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carrying a mysterious military payload

I love it, LOL!!!

1 posted on 04/28/2005 7:52:32 AM PDT by Magnum44
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To: Magnum44
Titan 4 finally fueled for secret satellite launch

If the launch is a secret how is there an article about it?

2 posted on 04/28/2005 7:53:53 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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It's gotta be the top secret ARPA tsunami generating satellite. Al Jazeera said so!!!


3 posted on 04/28/2005 7:56:41 AM PDT by boofus
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To: Phantom Lord

SHHHHH! Its a secret!


4 posted on 04/28/2005 7:56:47 AM PDT by WildBillArthur (Support the NRA!)
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To: Magnum44
...beginning a 9-minute, 30-second ascent to deliver the secret spy satellite payload into Earth orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office

I guess the payload isn't so mysterious after all.

5 posted on 04/28/2005 7:57:59 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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SHHHHH! Its a secret!

Hey -- don't go around telling everyone that it's a secret! That IS a secret, after all!
6 posted on 04/28/2005 7:58:20 AM PDT by Thrusher (Remember the Mog.)
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To: Magnum44

bttt


7 posted on 04/28/2005 8:01:28 AM PDT by Guenevere (Sola Gratia)
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To: Magnum44
Titan4B

8 posted on 04/28/2005 8:02:21 AM PDT by demlosers (Rumsfeld: "We don't have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy.'')
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To: Magnum44

To this day we spend billions trying to keep certain things secret, yet, with no success. The 1950-1960's era of secrecy is still with us. It is called "empire building". We really do need to declassify 95% of what is out there. For one thing, it would cut the costs by at least 50%. The industry loves the secrecy because it keeps out lower cost competitors.


9 posted on 04/28/2005 8:05:24 AM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: Magnum44

I'm glad to see its been kept hush-hush. I look forward to more articles about the secretiveness of it all.


10 posted on 04/28/2005 8:10:18 AM PDT by isom35
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To: Magnum44
The Titan name is fading into history...

My brother was on the first all military lauch crew for the Titan way back when. He considered it, "his bird."

11 posted on 04/28/2005 8:10:32 AM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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I am soooo excited!! Proudmilitarymr, I and our 12 year old son will be in Cape Canaveral tomorrow night! We'll get to see the launch!!

Woohoo! Go NASA!!


12 posted on 04/28/2005 8:13:48 AM PDT by proudmilitarymrs (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.)
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Thank goodness no one reads the free republic or else it wouldn't be a secret any more...... hahahahahahaha.

That headline is a joke.


13 posted on 04/28/2005 8:17:49 AM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: festus

Nothing wrong with the headline. It's a secret satellite, not a secret launch.


14 posted on 04/28/2005 8:21:31 AM PDT by jackbill
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To: RadioAstronomer
Any comments?

;-)

15 posted on 04/28/2005 8:34:43 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: WildBillArthur
"SHHHHH! Its a secret! " "be vewy, vewy quite....I'm Huntin wabbits"
16 posted on 04/28/2005 8:46:53 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An Armed Society is a Polite Society" Heinlein)
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To: Magnum44; RadioAstronomer; longshadow; proudmilitarymrs; demlosers; Guenevere; Thrusher; ...
This thing just launched about 20mins ago.

My Brother-in-law called me and asked what just launched from down south, we're in JAX and get a good view of shuttle launches, and asked "wasn't the shuttle put off for another month?"

I stepped out side just in time to see the 1st stage booster go off.
17 posted on 04/29/2005 6:20:09 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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Lockheed Martin's Titan 4 B successful into Space
18 posted on 04/29/2005 6:27:38 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA
I stepped out side just in time to see the 1st stage booster go off.


Bump - Cool :)
19 posted on 04/29/2005 6:48:01 PM PDT by Gucho
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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye; Molly Pitcher

Builder bump..


20 posted on 04/30/2005 4:05:41 AM PDT by Dog ( Premier news hound and proud member of FR's Pajama News Service...winner of several Buckeye awards.)
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