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Aviation Related? - Satellite could plummet to Earth
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Originally posted by AVION1During the Columbia disaster, most of the fuel tanks survived the heat during the catastrophic re-entry.
May a plethora of uncultivated palaeontologists raise the dead in a way that makes your blood boil
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Originally posted by Rolling-ThunderG4 - It's a hit - you just sunk my battleship !!
Mission accomplished ... according to CNN
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Lurking at JP since the BA 777 at Heathrow and AD lost responsiveness to the throttles.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Sherlock Holmes
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Direct hit...!
WASHINGTON: A missile interceptor launched from a navy warship has struck a dying American spy satellite orbiting 130 miles over the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon announced late Wednesday.
Officials cautioned that while early information indicated that the interceptor's "kill vehicle" had hit the satellite, it would be 24 hours before it could be determined whether the fuel tank with 1,000 pounds of toxic hydrazine had been destroyed as planned.
Even so, one official who received a late-night briefing on the mission expressed confidence that the impact had been so powerful that the fuel tank probably had been ruptured.
Completing a mission in which an interceptor designed for missile defense was used for the first time to attack a satellite, the Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser, fired a single missile just before 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, and the missile hit the satellite as it traveled at more than 17,000 miles per hour, the Pentagon said in its official announcement.
"A network of land-, air-, sea- and spaced-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a nonfunctioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits before entering the Earth's atmosphere," the statement said.
More of it here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bda_1203609761Inactive from May 1 2009.
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