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A US Navy satellite used to provide real-time weather reports has exploded in space.
Sky News ^
| 2 march 2015
| sky news
Posted on 03/02/2015 7:56:18 PM PST by CMB_polarization
The US Air Force confirmed that the 20-year-old Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13 (DMSP-F13) suffered a "catastrophic event".
It shattered into 43 pieces following a sudden temperature spike which triggered the loss of its altitude control.
The event happened on 3 February but the incident has only just came to light following questions from website Space News.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006; 201502; 20150203; 2016; dmspf13; explosion; isolatedincident; isolatedincidents; meteorology; satellite; satelliteexplosion; temperaturespike; usaf; usn; weathersatellite
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To: CMB_polarization
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:56:51 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: Steely Tom
To: CMB_polarization
Temperature spike? Huh, what could possibly cause that? /s
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:58:39 PM PST
by
DocRock
(All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
To: CMB_polarization
Exactly 43 pieces and only 43? And how do they know that?
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:58:46 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
To: CMB_polarization
A highly localized climate change caused the explosion.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:58:59 PM PST
by
Ken H
(DILLIGAF)
To: Steely Tom
Apparently so.....(interesting..)
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:59:30 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
To: CMB_polarization
Sounds about right. Thermal spike and attitude control system failure is what you’d expect from a laser hit.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:59:36 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Fungi
More like ‘43 pieces visible on radar’.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:59:59 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: DocRock
Leaking hypergolic fuels?
Sporkweasels?
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:00:43 PM PST
by
null and void
(As always, keeping a low profile with anything you do is to your advantage.)
To: Fungi
Because PAVE PAWS can track it. Every piece.
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:00:57 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: CMB_polarization
Spontaneous military satellite combustion.
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:00:59 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: CMB_polarization
Laser attack? A reasonable person might contemplate that possibility.
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:01:01 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: Fungi
43 pieces large enough for them to track.
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:01:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: CMB_polarization
A sudden temperature spike in space?
To: Ken H
Damn those orbiting SUVs!
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:02:57 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: CMB_polarization
So the Chinese test was successful?
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:03:01 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: All
What country was it over at the event time?
To: CMB_polarization
Global Warming...courtesy of Red China.
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:03:30 PM PST
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: Fungi
“Exactly 43 pieces and only 43? And how do they know that?”
That only proves that it was George W. Bush’s fault.
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