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***WATCH LIVE*** Delta IV NROL-47 Live Launch From Vandenberg (T-4 minutes)
www.youtube.com ^ | Jan 12, 2018 | 23 ABC News | KERO

Posted on 01/12/2018 1:58:02 PM PST by ransomnote

Yesterday's rocket launch was scrubbed. Launch is now schedule for about 4 minutes from posting this.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: deltaiv; nrol47; rocket; rocketlaunch
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1 posted on 01/12/2018 1:58:02 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

What’s the payload?...............


2 posted on 01/12/2018 2:04:46 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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secret. Said to be spy communications but payload is secret. Patch for mission shows a knight wielding a sword to slay a attacking dragon - the dragon has sword wounds. The prior launch of this type of rocket had a knight wielding a sword and a less menacing dragon without wounds. Supposedly these flight patches have meaning.


3 posted on 01/12/2018 2:09:09 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: Red Badger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Imagery_Architecture
4 posted on 01/12/2018 2:09:45 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Red Badger
Miscellaneous stuff DJT is using to play with Kim U-fat’s head.

5 posted on 01/12/2018 2:12:22 PM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: ransomnote

Oh I’m sure they have a meaning.

Dragon, eh? Hmmmm.....


6 posted on 01/12/2018 2:12:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ransomnote

That is soooooooo cool!


7 posted on 01/12/2018 2:15:44 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ransomnote

Thanks that was cool.


8 posted on 01/12/2018 2:16:53 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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Freaked me out when the excess hydrogen burned off!


9 posted on 01/12/2018 2:17:19 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ransomnote

Flames shot all over lower half at liftoff.
Thought it was going to blow up.


10 posted on 01/12/2018 2:17:21 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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Earlier they announced that “sparklers” would ignite to burn off excess hydrogen. Even having heard that - those flames didn’t look like sparklers but I guess in terms of fuel comparison, the flames were sparklers compared with launch fuel.


11 posted on 01/12/2018 2:19:42 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: SaveFerris

The thumbnail for the video on Youtube shows the patch.


12 posted on 01/12/2018 2:20:14 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

yea it launched.


13 posted on 01/12/2018 2:20:32 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: ransomnote

Yeah. That looked scary.

Was it a private company that launched it?


14 posted on 01/12/2018 2:22:35 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: tennmountainman; tet68

Thought the same. That looked quite wrong at first.


15 posted on 01/12/2018 2:25:45 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ransomnote; null and void

Haven’t seen it yet.

[ Vandenberg ]

Ah, that means polar orbit as I understand it. That’s how the Keyhole series were launched a lot of the time, if not always. I’m thinking KH-11 and KH-12 series of days gone by.

So it’s a spy bird at a minimum; the wounds are interesting (given your description of the patch)


16 posted on 01/12/2018 2:26:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: tennmountainman

Launched from US Airforce base and seems to have a NASA type patch.


17 posted on 01/12/2018 2:27:12 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Thanks for the thread, I pulled it up at T-1.


18 posted on 01/12/2018 2:28:04 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2

Cool!


19 posted on 01/12/2018 2:32:45 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: tet68

Yep.

They had a camera flash when it was pretty high and that was interesting.


20 posted on 01/12/2018 6:10:29 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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