Posted on 11/19/2014 2:54:36 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
In May, Russia launched a rocket to add several satellites to its existing constellation. In the process, it deployed what was first believed to be a piece of space debris but has now become a matter of great speculation.
"I have no idea what it is!" space security expert Patricia Lewis of the think-tank Chatham House told The Washington Post in a phone interview.
Few do. Russia did not declare its orbit, and now the U.S. military, space experts and amateur sleuths have been closely tracking its movements, each of which has been deliberate and precise. The unidentified satellite — called Object 2014-28E — recently navigated toward other Russian space objects, its voyage culminating in its recent hookup with the remains of the rocket stage that originally launched it.
The satellite could be nothing. It could be space junk. It could be a search-and-rescue mission or some innocuous method to clear space debris — the bane of satellite navigation. Or it could be something more.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
Satellite using the booster stage as a charging port? Could be more Putin hyperbole, who knows?
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Time to send one of our recon satellites over to take a look. If we can land satellites/landers on Venus, the Moon, Mars and comets, then we can send one of our satellites to something only a few hundred miles up in earth orbit.
I would like to send Obama, Holder, Reid, Schumer or Pelosi up to take a look but we need something with some intelligence to do the job.
I have one tape recording of a demonic deposession that would make the hair stand up on your neck... Took over a woman’s body and threatened to kill her.
LOL...wrong thread.. Sorry
“It deployed what was at first believed to be space debris”
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Vlad’s shooting his empty beer cans into space to hide them from his wife?
Ah, the beginning of space salvage business. Lots of gold floating around up there. Then again, it could be the beginning of space piracy.
Trust me on this one, the DoD knows exactly what this is. This is only a mystery to those wanting it to be a mystery.
Just another part of nobama’s “flexibility” after the election.
WTH, that might be as good an explanation as any.
Thanks... I needed a laugh!!!
Putin feels there’s going to be an out and out war. He’s preparing...
Naw! Pooty and nobama are two peas in the same pod. Putin knows damn well if he were to get into a real shootem up, Russia would not prevail. Both of them are big on bluffing when they think we are weakened or distracted.
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