The Secret Air Force Space Drone Heads Back Into Orbit
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 Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 
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A classified Air Force space drone is returning to orbit again, and this time NASA will use the flight to see how 100 or so “materials of interest†hold up in the murderous environment of space. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-13/the-secret-air-force-space-drone-heads-back-into-orbit ID: 1679409 ·  |
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KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 
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Makes you thing about: what are they doing up there? ;)   non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU ID: 1679828 · |
Gary Charpentier    Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31005 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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Makes you thing about: what are they doing up there? ;) Building better ways to kill ..... 
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Julie  Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 
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janneseti  Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 
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But that means FRA are also involved:( Well. Sort of... ID: 1681020 · |
Bob DeWoody  Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10
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I still wonder if and when they announce they are going to scale this thing up to a size that would allow it to work as a taxi to the ISS as originally planned. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. ID: 1681111 · |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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According to theregister.co.uk it is carrying a number of scientific payloads, including a LighSail by the Planetary Society. Its first stage engine is a Russian-built Atlas V. Tullio ID: 1681970 · |
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KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60
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According to theregister.co.uk it is carrying a number of scientific payloads, including a LighSail by the Planetary Society. Its first stage engine is a Russian-built Atlas V. Looking forward for the LightSail data... ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU ID: 1682039 · |
Darth Beaver  Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 
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Who knows outside the the Air Force what they are really doing . Spose to be releasing 10 small satellites if you can believe that 
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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John McCallum  Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 879 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 
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space it is not all that big about 1/4 of the size of the shuttle I think. Why not 30? Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care ID: 1689156 · |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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It looks like that LightSail has communicated with Earth after a reboot and it might be deploying its sail. But the NASA Deep Space Network is not following it, so communication is difficult. All I know comes from the NYTimes. Tullio ID: 1689196 · |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31005 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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It looks like that LightSail has communicated with Earth after a reboot and it might be deploying its sail. But the NASA Deep Space Network is not following it, so communication is difficult. All I know comes from the NYTimes. Then http://sail.planetary.org/missioncontrol might be of interest.
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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79
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Why not 30? Because the 30 never really had that many in one place. Ice that had accreted from various comets pumped up the numbers, since Ice occupies a greater volume than does water. (Or ... does it? Dah, dah, DAH!) ID: 1689377 · |
edjcox  Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 96 Credit: 5,878,353 RAC: 0
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Always fun to speculate.. Let's see if they are testing an EM Horn thruster. Never engage stupid people at their level, they then have the home court advantage..... ID: 1690425 · |
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