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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Flench on May 05, 2010, 12:57:54 PM
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You guy's see this ?
Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon
Michael Evans, Pentagon Correspondent -From The Times April 24, 2010
Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build.
The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket, looks like a mini-Space Shuttle — but its mission is top secret.
It is officially described as an orbital test vehicle. However, one of its potential uses appears to be to launch a surge of small satellites during periods of high international tension. This would enable America to have eyes and ears orbiting above any potential troublespot in the world.
The X37B can stay in orbit for up to 270 days, whereas the Shuttle can last only 16 days. This will provide the US with the ability to carry out experiments for long periods, including the testing of new laser weapon systems. This would bring accusations that the launch of X37B, and a second vehicle planned for later this year, could lead to the militarisation of space.
US defence officials, who would not say how much the project had cost, insisted, however, that it was “just an updated version of the Space Shuttle activities”.
Thursday’s launch was more about testing the craft, a new generation of silica tile and a wealth of other advances that make the Shuttle look like yesterday’s space technology.
Nasa’s X37B programme began in 1999 and ran until September 2004 when it was transferred to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency before being taken over by the US Air Force.
The flight of the X37B is being managed by the US Air Force Space Command’s 3rd Space Experimental Squadron.
“This bird has been through all of the shake, rattle and roll, the vibration tests, the acoustic tests that any spacecraft would go through,” said Gary Payton, Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programmes.
With all the focus on the launch of the secret X37B, another space launch by a Minotaur IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California received less attention.
It was carrying the prototype of a new weapon that can hit any target around the world in less than an hour.
The Prompt Global Strike is designed as the conventional weapon of the future. It could hit Osama bin Laden’s cave, an Iranian nuclear site or a North Korean missile with a huge conventional
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OMG please.
This is not a huge secretive event. A spacecraft that can stay aloft/independent for 9 months? Since when do we check our disbelief at the door? Sheesh.....
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17,500 mph.................
It would need to be perked.
:)
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If this is true, its very simple gentlemen, He who controls space, controls the world.
Period, and i am damn glad its not russian or china made.
Welp,guess its only a matter of time before we start seeing USSM's "united states space marines" :rock
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17,500 mph.................
It would need to be perked.
:)
HAHAHAHAHA Now that's funny !
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If this is true, its very simple gentlemen, He who controls space, controls the world.
Period, and i am damn glad its not russian or china made.
Designed in Germany, manufactured in China, assembled in Taiwan, shipped via large Russian plane, and launched by the USA.
I guess you were wrong :D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-212
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Cool to see the Air Force going into space. 'Course, I have a feeling they've been doing it for a while.
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Cool to see the Air Force going into space. 'Course, I have a feeling they've been doing it for a while.
They have and it's no secret... not as in 'it's a poorly kept secret', there's literally no secret in the Air Force's involvement in space flight... the Air Force Space Command has been around since 1982.
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Dude...you're freakin' me out with this chit. I'll have to dust off my tinfoil hat and go sit in a tree before long :noid
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Dude...you're freakin' me out with this chit. I'll have to dust off my tinfoil hat and go sit in a tree before long :noid
Ike tried to warn us... We didn't listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwrnX-5yOT0&feature=related
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Wait > That is not little green men I see IT'S THE AIR FORCE ! :rofl
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No dragon that's part of the cover up!! :noid
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this is a quote from wikipedia "The X-37B was originally scheduled for launch in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle, but following the Columbia accident, it was transferred to a Delta II 7920. It was subsequently transferred to a shrouded configuration on the Atlas V following concerns over the unshrouded spacecraft's aerodynamic properties during launch.[11]
The first orbital flight of the first X-37B, named USA-212, was launched on an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on April 22, 2010, at 23:58 GMT. The spacecraft was placed into low Earth orbit for testing, then will be de-orbited for landing.[12]
Following their missions, X-37B spacecraft are to land on a runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California with Edwards Air Force Base as an alternate site.[13] A second X-37B is being manufactured for a test mission scheduled for 2011.[12][14]
Chinese sources have claimed that the X-37B flight might trigger an arms race in space.[15]"
kinda funny thats its made in china LOL
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:noid
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If its so secret, why in the world does everyone know about it. Guess nowadays secret means "tell anyone"
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No, secret means: 'tell anyone but ask not to repeat it'
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You guy's see this ?
Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon
Michael Evans, Pentagon Correspondent -From The Times April 24, 2010
Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build.
The mysterious X37B, launched successfully by the US Air Force from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket, looks like a mini-Space Shuttle — but its mission is top secret.
It is officially described as an orbital test vehicle. However, one of its potential uses appears to be to launch a surge of small satellites during periods of high international tension. This would enable America to have eyes and ears orbiting above any potential troublespot in the world.
The X37B can stay in orbit for up to 270 days, whereas the Shuttle can last only 16 days. This will provide the US with the ability to carry out experiments for long periods, including the testing of new laser weapon systems. This would bring accusations that the launch of X37B, and a second vehicle planned for later this year, could lead to the militarisation of space.
US defence officials, who would not say how much the project had cost, insisted, however, that it was “just an updated version of the Space Shuttle activities”.
Thursday’s launch was more about testing the craft, a new generation of silica tile and a wealth of other advances that make the Shuttle look like yesterday’s space technology.
Nasa’s X37B programme began in 1999 and ran until September 2004 when it was transferred to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency before being taken over by the US Air Force.
The flight of the X37B is being managed by the US Air Force Space Command’s 3rd Space Experimental Squadron.
“This bird has been through all of the shake, rattle and roll, the vibration tests, the acoustic tests that any spacecraft would go through,” said Gary Payton, Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programmes.
With all the focus on the launch of the secret X37B, another space launch by a Minotaur IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California received less attention.
It was carrying the prototype of a new weapon that can hit any target around the world in less than an hour.
The Prompt Global Strike is designed as the conventional weapon of the future. It could hit Osama bin Laden’s cave, an Iranian nuclear site or a North Korean missile with a huge conventional
Yup. Watched it launch personally,. from my back yard. Was a really pretty launch, and could see all the way through the nose cone separation (4 pieces) with a small telescope. Got a glimpse of the X-37 in sunlight, as it seemed to roll upright, then lost it.
Absolutely perfect time to watch a launch that day. Sun had just gone below horizon and was still shining light up through the curve of the earth, so the rocket and subsequently the X37 were bathed in sunlight while the eastern sky was darker, the direction it launched.
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Secret huh? Did you read about it in the double naught spy journal?
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:noid :bolt:
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There's another "secret" spacecraft launched every couple months at least. The last one didn't even have time to complete a few orbits (or was it even one?) before amateurs on the ground were able to tell exactly what it was for by flight path, mass, speed, ect.
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kinda funny thats its made in china LOL
It's not.
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If this is true, its very simple gentlemen, He who controls space, controls the world.
Period, and i am damn glad its not russian or china made.
Welp,guess its only a matter of time before we start seeing USSM's "united states space marines" :rock
Warhammer 40,000 FTW!
-Penguin
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Welp,guess its only a matter of time before we start seeing USSM's "united states space marines" :rock
(http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/media/images/uploads/productimage-picture-united-states-colonial-marines-67.jpg)
Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...
Tronsky
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secure that watermelon Hudson!
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Designed in Germany, manufactured in China, assembled in Taiwan, shipped via large Russian plane, and launched by the USA.
I guess you were wrong :D
LOL .....
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As an American who can neither confirm or deny that I work for any government agency either formed as an act of Congrss or behind closed doors, that the launch of a test vehicle under discussion right now was strictly for weather information purposes. We, the United States government along with the international community would never use the airspace above the atmosphere for any military purposes. The sole reason is strictly for logistics.
There's no sexy babes in SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well , I wonder what spacecraft they have that we don't know about . Me and a friend seen one a few year's ago not 100 feet off the ground going by and was not making a sound and we both seen it . Now what the hell was that ? We seen it good . Looked like a big silver football . That head to be some thing the service has ..
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As an American who can neither confirm or deny that I work for any government agency either formed as an act of Congrss or behind closed doors, that the launch of a test vehicle under discussion right now was strictly for weather information purposes. We, the United States government along with the international community would never use the airspace above the atmosphere for any military purposes. The sole reason is strictly for logistics.
There's no sexy babes in SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess its time for this picture
(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd104/Ahmeatwadair/afchartvx3.jpg)
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Weather balloons come in so many shapes and sizes. :noid
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I bet Shuffler built parts for it............. :D with that facy lazer thingy hes got.
Hey Shuff come on you can tell us how many ufo parts have they had you back engineer, and have you put any of them in your truck.
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You can be fairly confident that if the U.S Government did not want you to know about it you wouldn't.
Secret :rofl
British Government however, they tell British tabloids exactly where the Special Forces with laser designators are in Bosnia, and the British press of course release it.
Result = Dead SAS team :furious
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this is a quote from wikipedia "The X-37B was originally scheduled for launch in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle, but following the Columbia accident, it was transferred to a Delta II 7920. It was subsequently transferred to a shrouded configuration on the Atlas V following concerns over the unshrouded spacecraft's aerodynamic properties during launch.[11]
The first orbital flight of the first X-37B, named USA-212, was launched on an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on April 22, 2010, at 23:58 GMT. The spacecraft was placed into low Earth orbit for testing, then will be de-orbited for landing.[12]
Following their missions, X-37B spacecraft are to land on a runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California with Edwards Air Force Base as an alternate site.[13] A second X-37B is being manufactured for a test mission scheduled for 2011.[12][14]
Chinese sources have claimed that the X-37B flight might trigger an arms race in space.[15]"
kinda funny thats its made in china LOL
I just wonder how many part's in it are USA made, lol ? The sticker on the side ?
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IF IT COULD HIT OSAMA BIN LADENS CAVE then why dont "they" hit his darn caver then. and its a spy for the rooks, kinda dunno if shawk installed the chinese n japanese translators on the darn thing.
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17,500 mph.................
It would need to be perked.
:)
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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If this is true, its very simple gentlemen, He who controls space, controls the world.
Period, and i am damn glad its not russian or china made.
Welp,guess its only a matter of time before we start seeing USSM's "united states space marines" :rock
never know parts of it could be made in china