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What Did The Air Force Just Launch Into Space?
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[quote:Fireengineer:MV8yMDc3NzcyXzM0OTgyNTczXzZCMjU2REIy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 26262155:MV8yMDc3NzcyXzM0OTc5Njc1X0Q1NTE2NjBF] http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2011/02/secret-shuttle.html "The 15th shuttle mission, STS-51-C, was the first to be completely dedicated to a secret mission for the Department of Defense. The details are still largely classified, but one alleged story leaked to Aviation Week is that one of the purposes of the mission was to launch an ELINT spy satellite in geosynchronous orbit. More top-secret missions followed in quick succession: STS-51-J, STS-27, STS-28, STS-33, STS-36, and STS-38. And then something strange happened. After STS-53, the CIA/DoD stopped commandeering shuttle flights for classified national security purposes. Whatever it was they had been doing, had they had enough and didn't need any further surreptitious skulking in space? That hardly seems like them. But from 1992 on, the Pentagon seemingly had no further need for the Space Shuttle's services. And I asked myself once again, what do they know that we don't?" [/quote] The cold war ended by 1992, so they could not spend obscene amounts of cash on space surveillance? [/quote]
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At 1:03 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Air Force launched an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket’s cargo, a small shuttle called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, is an autonomous spacecraft that’s been under development by the U.S. government for over a decade –though very few people know exactly what it’s supposed to do.
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