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US military satellite explodes above Earth
The Telegraph ^ | 02 Mar 2015 | Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 03/02/2015 11:24:01 AM PST by muffaletaman

A US military satellite exploded after detecting an unexplained “sudden spike in temperature”, sending dozens of chunks of debris tumbling into different orbits around Earth. ===== Air Force Space Command confirmed to SpaceNews.com that the “catastrophic event” came after “a sudden spike in temperature” was detected, followed by “an unrecoverable loss of attitude control”.

While operators were deciding how to “render the vehicle safe” they detected a debris cloud which indicated that the satellite had been destroyed.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: highenergylaser; laser; putinsbuttboys; vladtheimploder
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Either the satellite just got hot by itelf and kablam, or someone shot it down via advanced technical means.

Space War?

1 posted on 03/02/2015 11:24:01 AM PST by muffaletaman
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To: muffaletaman

Lasers


2 posted on 03/02/2015 11:25:27 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: muffaletaman

I guess we’ll know for sure after the next one.


3 posted on 03/02/2015 11:25:43 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Ping.


4 posted on 03/02/2015 11:25:43 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: muffaletaman

Either the satellite just got hot by itelf and kablam, or someone shot it down via advanced technical means.


No doubt.

Information is scant, but I’m betting number 2, even though it violates Occam’s razor.


5 posted on 03/02/2015 11:26:01 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: muffaletaman

Its those new fangled batteries.


6 posted on 03/02/2015 11:26:14 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: muffaletaman

Somebody blowed it up real good.


7 posted on 03/02/2015 11:26:15 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: muffaletaman

I’ve heard the Russians have been experimenting with development of satellite killers.


8 posted on 03/02/2015 11:26:29 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: SoConPubbie

that’d be my guess


9 posted on 03/02/2015 11:27:02 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: muffaletaman

What country was it over when it “exploded?”


10 posted on 03/02/2015 11:27:04 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: muffaletaman

Ah, the secret weapon works.

Now we just have to find out who’s side the weapon is on.

I note the satellite was an old one and not critical to our system.


11 posted on 03/02/2015 11:27:14 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: muffaletaman

And the liberals laughed at Reagan for his interest in “star wars”


12 posted on 03/02/2015 11:27:55 AM PST by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: gorush

I guess we’ll know for sure after the next one.


Remember 9/11.

It was oddly hilarious when a CNN reporteret acted like it was another accident when the second plane hit the second tower. Then she snapped out of it.

If only one tower had been hit and nothing else happened, 9/11 would be a big controversy regarding what happened.


13 posted on 03/02/2015 11:28:00 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: muffaletaman
Hmmmm......
Need more info....
14 posted on 03/02/2015 11:28:42 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: muffaletaman

Do satellites have a self-destruct? What if someone hacked it to self-terminate?


15 posted on 03/02/2015 11:28:57 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: muffaletaman

“Space War”?

No, global warming effects on the upper ionosphere.


16 posted on 03/02/2015 11:29:23 AM PST by DBrow
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Well, since it was a military satellite, it would be interesting if it was, itself, a killer satellite and something happened causing it to off itself. Laser power overdrive or something like that.


17 posted on 03/02/2015 11:29:34 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: muffaletaman

made itself safe.


18 posted on 03/02/2015 11:30:06 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: SoConPubbie

19 posted on 03/02/2015 11:30:31 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: PeteB570

Ah, the secret weapon works.

Now we just have to find out who’s side the weapon is on.

I note the satellite was an old one and not critical to our system.


Interesting. I missed the “old” part.

It’s like what we did with old ships when testing nuclear bombs - maybe. The fact that we publicized it may be a message to other governments. Unfriendly ones.


20 posted on 03/02/2015 11:31:08 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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