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Offline ZetaNine

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Official Says Missile Hit Satellite
« on: February 20, 2008, 09:55:14 PM »
WASHINGTON (AP) - A defense official says a missile launched from a Navy ship in the Pacific hit the U.S. spy satellite it was targeting 130 miles above Earth's surface. Full details are not yet available.
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Offline toastman

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 10:31:33 PM »
maby thats what they want us to think!:noid :noid
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Offline wooly15

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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2008, 10:38:53 PM »
Woo HOO! that's my old ship.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2008, 10:52:36 PM »
He shoots, he SCORES!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 11:00:27 PM »
Nice shot!  Next launch will be a Dyson to suck up tardy reentry debris.
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2008, 11:11:33 PM »
But what was REALLY on this new technology super secret $ 1.5 Billion dollar Spy Satellite that the government wanted to cover up so badly???

They said that the fuel on board could have contaminated an area the size of two football fields.   If that was all there was to it, then why was there this big fuss??

Seems to me that there is really much more to this story.

Besides the fact that $1.5 Billion in Taxpayer's money just went up in smoke.
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 11:19:03 PM »
I heard from someone that lately, mil satellites were having big problems....two years back most expensive-ever satellites displayed unintentional wonderful firework show. This is probably an older brother of the one that never made it into space...
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 11:49:09 PM »
Guys,

1000 lbs of hydrazine is bad stuff, but not as bad as they are trying to make it out to be. Its a simple cover to blow the thing up so the Russians or Chinese can't salvage anything useful from it.

Makes sense - its nothing new.
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Re: Official Says Missile Hit Satellite
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2008, 11:52:11 PM »
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A defense official says a missile launched from a Navy ship in the Pacific hit the U.S. spy satellite it was targeting 130 miles above Earth's surface. Full details are not yet available.


Oh man ... heads will roll! ;)
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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2008, 11:52:34 PM »
Poor Major Tom...
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 01:20:17 AM »
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$1.5 Billion in Taxpayer's money just went up in smoke.

If you mean the sat's pricetag, that was the case for a while already.  It was DOA.
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2008, 05:11:56 AM »
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I heard from someone that lately, mil satellites were having big problems....two years back most expensive-ever satellites displayed unintentional wonderful firework show. This is probably an older brother of the one that never made it into space...


No, this satellite is brand new.  The biggest and most expensive one in history.

It malfunctioned immediately after being launched into space.  

Most satellites are not the size of a school bus.  

Could it have secretly been a Star Wars Missile platform?
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2008, 07:12:06 AM »
Or maybe they want everyone to think is has been blown up :noid
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2008, 08:31:06 AM »
Or maybe they just wanted to demonstrate our missle defense system is up and running :noid
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2008, 08:33:12 AM »
An F-15 shot down a satellite in the 1980s.  This was a great shot, but quite a bit easier than intercepting an incoming warhead.
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