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The X-37B Mystery Spacecraft Just Had Its Nine Month Mission Extended Indefinitely
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| 12-3-2011
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 12/03/2011 7:16:53 AM PST by blam
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:16:58 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Tiny Rods from God?
Mysterious explosions in Iran?
It would not be hard to drop a kinetic object onto a spot as small as a 2 foot radius. Just needs a bit of maneuverability and cheap GPS guidance.
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:23:31 AM PST
by
Bobalu
(even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
To: blam
My first thought at the headline was “What, did they lose it?”
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:24:34 AM PST
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: blam
Impressive performance so far it seems. Especially for something that looks as though it was assembled from parts found at the ‘Boneyard’ and reinforced with 100 mph duct tape.
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:26:05 AM PST
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: blam
They don’t know how to get it down?
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:26:49 AM PST
by
KrisKrinkle
(Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
To: blam
Is it using tiles like the shuttle or is it carbon-carbon on every surface or even better, a newer heat shield technology?
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:30:44 AM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: KrisKrinkle
They dont know how to get it down?That could very well be it, they can bring it down for some reason. Failure in some subsystem perhaps. We'll probably never know.
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:39:19 AM PST
by
Paradox
(The rich SHOULD be paying more taxes, and they WOULD, if they could make more money.)
To: blam
Just a fancy looking satellite......
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:39:59 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Be good, Santa is coming)
To: blam
Oh good grief!
The damn thing is a suborbital predator drone equipped with a high intensity long distance surgical laser designed to disable or destroy within the top secret and very precise coordinates of NSA GPS the electronic capabilities of the enemies of America.
It is one of Bush's War on Terrorism projects Obama was smart to preserve.
When he collapses the economy and declares martial law the dang things will take out the communications capabilities of any and all resistance movements—sort of like the Commies first taking over the radio stations in the days of the vacuum tube.
21st Century Socialist Man.
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:48:26 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
( "Where's the BLUE DRESS? you liberal and RINO scum!")
To: Renderofveils
more likely things have gone well. Because of the very high cost of just getting something into space, much less sending a technician in to space to change out batteries or troubleshoot problems, space-based systems are built to complete their missions when lots of stuff goes wrong.
When things go right, there’s extra mission capability. This is why a lot of satellites are functional far past their expected lifetimes. Since there are no astronauts involved (by far the most needy and fragile component in any space system), time on orbit isn’t a system constraint. So long as there’s enough propellant left to get home, there’s no reason to end things just because the original schedule that assumed things would go wrong says so.
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:56:14 AM PST
by
jz638
To: KrisKrinkle
They dont know how to get it down?My first reaction, as well. Leave it up until folks forget about it?
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posted on
12/03/2011 7:58:05 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: Happy Rain
Not suborbital, it is a LEO (low earth orbit)drone. Likely equipped with kinetic smart weapons and small port firing devices intended to disable satellites.
The kinetic weapons have no launch signature, and appear as meteors when they enter the atmosphere. For some reason they seem to be attracted to rouge atomic facilities in the mid-east and south west Asia.
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posted on
12/03/2011 8:13:19 AM PST
by
wrench
To: Bobalu
You’re saying a high tech version of the lazy dog bomb?
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posted on
12/03/2011 8:16:01 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: wrench
Oh come on wrench,you are not getting into the FR spirit at all!
Everything done by the Defense Department since the day of infamy when the Naked Marxist was inaugurated is suspect and Jane herself became just another guesser.
Put yourself in the military man's shoes when all of of sudden everything he says and does is not the UCMJ but PC.
Assume the worse!
Which means that,since the DOJ has blown off FOI,the DD is tasking our armed forces for the coming “reorganization.”
Of which the X-37B is a part.
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posted on
12/03/2011 8:33:59 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
( "Where's the BLUE DRESS? you liberal and RINO scum!")
To: Bobalu
ROFLOL, a slick rod with no wings, and tail fins, sure, what does the gps system do send out smoke signals. And what keeps it from burning up and what kind of breaking system does the rod have, a paddle. Do you know the speed that little 29 foot long thing is traveling at.
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posted on
12/03/2011 9:41:00 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
To: KrisKrinkle
BINGO, something has gone wrong, no command and control.
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posted on
12/03/2011 9:42:35 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
To: org.whodat
Even if it is just a decoy. China is eating up a lot of their resources trying to figure it out. Maybe they should launch a couple dozen more.
To: libertyhoundusnr
I think it is a test of flight controls, and heat shields, but it could have launched a small satellite, but some here cannot get it in their head that the thing is traveling at 17,000 miles per hour.
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posted on
12/03/2011 10:21:18 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
To: blam
It supposedly went up with 9 months worth of experiments and now they want to extend the mission indefinitely? What, they got more experiments sent up to the X-37B? I think this project is for something other than experiments.
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posted on
12/03/2011 10:42:56 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(Either Obama can beat any GOP candidate or no GOP candidate.)
To: blam
he he. The iranian mission testing is not complete yet.
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posted on
12/03/2011 10:47:32 AM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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