US military satellite launch 6:43pm ET

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/28/rocket-satellite-fifth-launch-attempt/13259457/

There really seems to be a rush to get it done.

Any speculation as to the payload?

[fdiini]

Any speculation as to the payload?

Military application?

Something that can watch your enemy from the sky, or aid in aiming your enemy.

[bitsmichel]

Any speculation as to the payload?

Military application?

Something that can watch your enemy from the sky, or aid in aiming your enemy.

I think it has military application, probably used for middle east or russia.

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from the article:
Atop the rocket are twin satellites that will look out for threats from other spacecraft
orbiting more than 22,000 miles up, and a third experimen­tal satellite.

The 3rd satellite, which is being "escorted" up, will be at an altitude that is not conducive for observation.

What kinda "threats" from other spacecraft are we talkin' about? Collision? Confrontation?

If it goes out there, wot'll it do, in high orbit, 10% of the way to the Moon?

Could it have something to do with this little guy?
http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/top-secret-military-mini-shuttle-marks-500-days-in-orbit-140424.htm

He's still up there, 500 days later, and he's been doing something.

Time will tell, or maybe we'll find out 50 years later.....

[newflesh]

Think this may be the same launch:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/28/rocket-carrying-u-s-neighborhood-watch-spy-satellites-launches-from-cape-canaveral/

An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday with a pair of U.S. military satellites designed to keep watch on other countries’ spacecraft.

The 206-foot (63-meter) tall rocket, built by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, lifted off at 7:28 p.m. EDT and blazed through partly cloudy skies as it headed into orbit, a United Launch Alliance live webcast showed.

Launch of two satellites for the U.S. Air Force’s recently declassified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, had been slated for July 23, but was delayed one day to resolve a technical issue with ground support equipment and then three more times by poor weather.

Once in orbit, the GSSAP satellites, built by Orbital Sciences Corp, will drift above and below a 22,300-mile (35,970-km) high zone that houses most of the world’s communications satellites and other spacecraft.

General William Shelton, head of Air Force Space Command, likened GSSAP to a “neighborhood watch program” that will keep tabs on other countries’ satellites.

The program “will bolster our ability to discern when adversaries attempt to avoid detection and to discover capabilities they may have which might be harmful to our critical assets at these higher altitudes,” Shelton said during a speech in February that unveiled the once-classified program.

GSSAP also will track orbital debris, which could pose a threat to operational satellites. Current ground-based radar systems and telescopes can monitor objects that are bigger than about 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter. The trash includes spent rocket bodies and the remains of a satellite that China exploded in 2007 as part of a widely condemned anti-satellite missile test.

The Air Force currently tracks about 23,000 pieces of space junk.

Costs and technical details of the GSSAP program were not released. The rocket also carries a small secondary satellite that will be used for engineering tests.

The Air Force mission bumped NASA’s debut test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, which also will fly on a Delta 4 rocket. NASA’s launch is now targeted for December.

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Hmmm. No mention of the 3rd satellite.

If I may speculate, I would guess it was a HAARP component,
that they are getting above the ionosphere, for the purpose
of creating controlled radio blackouts, or some modified EMP effect.

Of course the G would have comms.



A possible scenario:

1. World goes into "world war" breakdown.

2. Comms hit with HAARP, creating a blackout/EMP.

3. In the 15 minutes of initial confusion, we hit them with everything, up to and including the kitchen sink.


I do not feel this is too far fetched of a situation. Its follows a logical course.