Wonder what just got blasted into space?

[undergroundpanther]

A fucking weapon?
Launch with secret payload
Web posted at: 6/16/2007 1:52:19
Source ::: REUTERS

CAPE CANAVERAL • An unmanned heavy-lift Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Thursday to put a secret payload into orbit.

The rocket, built by Lockheed Martin Corp. and marketed under a new Lockheed-Boeing Co. joint venture called United Launch Alliance, lifted off at 11:12 am EDT (1512 GMT) and headed out over the Atlantic Ocean.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Americas&month=June2007&file=World_News2007061615219.xml

Bush Seeks Military Control of Space

By BRUCE GAGNON

The Bush administration is expected to soon announce a new national space policy that will give the Pentagon the green light to move toward deployment of offensive weapons in space.

The new directive could allow deployment of lasers in space; attack vehicles that descend on targets from space; killer satellites, which would disrupt or destroy other nation's satellites; and tungsten rods fired from space platforms that would gather speeds of over 7,000 mph and be able to penetrate underground targets.
http://www.counterpunch.org/gagnon06032005.html

More on weapons in space
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/asat/971022-miracl-mr.htm
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/sbl.htm
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/060111_e-weapons.html


TRW Systems in Redondo Beach, Calif., for instance, is working on a portable chemical laser (which produces a beam from the energy released in the reaction of two or more chemicals) that could be carried into battle by a unit of only three men. Aimed like a rifle, it would silently burn a fatal, quarter-inch-wide hole in the body of an enemy soldier up to five miles away. "Once you've got him in your sights," says a TRW engineer, "you've got him. There are no misses.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910406-2,00.html

I Hate all the fucking war hawk sociopath dominating pieces of shit.Don't the little worker bees a Boeing ever feel a bit sick when they code pieces of death for Cheney? Do they ever ask why,do they even feel shame at what they helped create?
I'd like these insane weapons to explode in the neocons and corporates fucking hands,they need to take a BIG DOSE of their own medicine they have dished out to everyone else.Desperately. Before they destroy life as we know it.

Putin's pretty pissed..

The United States insists the shield that it wants is aimed at knocking out the threat from rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=490727

Yeah, right.Bushista dictators playing coy, it's disgusting.These fuckers in the whitehouse want to domninate the world.Everyone knows this. Except the dumb ass rethug true believers and fundies.

US, Russia avoid mention of missile shield in meet
Web posted at: 6/16/2007 1:52:39
Source ::: AFP

BRUSSELS • US Defence Secretary Robert Gates held what he described as "cordial, businesslike" talks at Nato headquarters yesterday with Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

But neither man mentioned the elephant in the room — a US plan to station a missile defence radar and interceptor missiles in eastern Europe that has infuriated Moscow and raised Cold War-like tensions.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Americas&month=June2007&file=World_News2007061615239.xml

Lets not forget the Iran Russia Connections.
ussia and Iran have signed an agreement for Moscow to supply fuel to Iran's new nuclear reactor in Bushehr.
Under the deal Iran has to return spent nuclear fuel rods from the reactor, which was designed and built by Russia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4301889.stm

WASHINGTON – Russia has signed a deal with Iran to sell 29 of its Tor M-1 anti-missile systems, a development that will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the rogue nation's nuclear facilities, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The system would theoretically permit Iran to intercept some cruise missiles as well as airborne missiles that U.S., Israeli or other western countries might use in an effort to keep the terrorist-supporting nation from developing nuclear weapons or using them.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47696


Coinkidink? I think NOT.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/12/hannah-iran/

[Up2Late]

1. It's probably another Spy Satellite, they have to replace those every so often.

Hopefully, it for spying on others and not for spying on Americans.

[undergroundpanther]

2. We got plenty of spy satellites

With all this development of space based weapons and a "missile defense shield", and Bush's desire for stirring up war with Iran and Russia..I don't think it's ANOTHER spy satellite.
We are NOT dealing with rational adults in the white house anymore.
Jeb Bush claims to have this magical warrior in his head chang..
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/jeb-bush-reveals/

I put my bets on it's missile defense shit or a laser to kill and destroy from space.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ian_williams/2007/01/revenge_of_the_cif.html

[HeeBGBz]

6. Meanwhile the much needed hurricane tracking satellite Quikscat

Is about to go non-functional.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4897110.html

National Hurricane Center director Bill Proenza says the loss of the satellite would likely shave 10 percent off the accuracy of two-day hurricane forecasts and 16 percent off three-day predictions. That would greatly increase the uncertainty over a storm's path and make more difficult the crucial decisions on coastline evacuation.

[Up2Late]

7. Yes, I've heard about that one...

...and believe me, I am pissed-off about that situation too.

[qdemn7]

3. Two Spy Sats in the wrong orbit

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/nro06157.xml&headline=NRO%20Spacecraft%20In%20Wrong%20Orbit

Two top secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) ocean surveillance spacecraft were fired into the wrong orbit June 15 when the 200-foot-tall Atlas V rocket they were riding on stopped firing too early in space following launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The top secret satellites separated safely from the malfunctioning booster, however, and have enough rocket propellant to continue their mission, an official said on background.

The U.S. Air Force, which managed the Atlas V launch, and the NRO have begun an official investigation into the launch and malfunction. The $83 million Atlas V used in the launch is a model 401 with no solid rocket boosters.

"The Atlas V people have a lot of explaining to do," the official said on background. The flight was the first NRO secret mission for the new Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.

The two spacecraft are critical to tracking ships that may conceal al Qaeda terrorists. The new spacecraft will also track Iranian and Chinese sea-based military operations.

Can we say "Oh SHIT"?

[Up2Late]

5. Well, there's your answer, Top Secret Space Junk.

Not a total loss, but definitely not a complete success.:argh:

[Selatius]

4. Militarizing space will simply provoke a new arms race.

In the early 20th century, it was the battleship and the army. In the Cold War, it was nuclear weapons. In the 21st century, it will be space-based weapons and orbital warships.