Posted on 06/11/2016 9:27:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The ULA is doing well these days.
I guess it’s because they weren’t repurposed to as a “Muslim outreach program”.
Launch of ULA Delta IV Heavy NROL-37 from Kennedy Space Center 06/11/16
2:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCSew308lY
You never know...given the current regime it could have been a small orbiting mosque!/s;)
Interesting video tying this mission to the Black Knight mystery satellite that has been orbiting Earth since the 1930s.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcIvojGETs
Odd designs for an “eavesdropping” satellite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180
The RD-180 is the engine that powers ULAs Atlas V rocket, used by the Air Force in their EELV program. Designed and built in Russia.
R.
Nothing is beyond our reach.
The common booster cores (3) used today fire a pratt and whitney (utx) engine r
Oh great, now they can watch American citizens inside their homes in the middle of the night.
Jack Has...
Kudo Patch needs a Kremlin star.
R.
(source: www.spaceflight101live.com)
I don't think we have reached past our solar system yet.
The info I read says they are RS-68A engines made by Aerojet Rocketdyne, which was a a merger with Pratt and Whitney which is part of United Technologies, which was sold to GENCORP, which....... all very confusing.
Another spy satellite?
Voyager?
Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligenceabbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligenceabbreviated to ELINT).
Atlas V uses the Russian engine. This is the other EELV rocket, the Delta IV. It uses the American RS-68A engine.
The funny thing is this top secret launch was carried live on an online stream by RT (Russian) television.
This was a Delta IV Heavy rocket that uses U.S. rocket engines. It’s the Atlas rocket that uses the Russian made rocket engines.
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