20-year-old Military Weather Satellite Apparently Exploded in Orbit

Kessler Syndrome doom?!

if their military satellites cant even survive the temperature how do their supposed astronauts, LOL

Most likely a Russian cosmosphere sending us a message.

This proves that no lander landed the moon. Wouldn't the suns plasma rays burned that flag off the stick? That satellite did have a good run though.

You don't believe the military likes to know what the weather will be like in the theatre?
And likes their recourses not having to depend on civilian services?
(Frankly they have to much money.)
Not as if they have been coy about the function of their many other satellites.

All the spook stuff is handled by the NRO, they have their own satellites.
They are coy about those...


We know that there have been collisions in space.
We know that there have been major malfunctions.



Fekking idiot/troll.
It survived just fine for 20 years. That's old for space hardware.



What sun's plasma rays?

Apparently the flags survived 40 years of exposure to UV.
Nylon usually doesn't but the process that deteriorates nylon here on Earth requires oxygen.

Two words

Fullford's Ninjas,

KESSLER!

Global satellite warming?

shit happens. if it fell on a trailer on some first nations indian reservation in Canada, they'll be filthy rich after suing the U.S. government.

UUh.... Voyager launched over 35 years ago was equipped with RTGs.

The temperature spike might lead one to believe either classified content, structural damage to an RTG with some amount of propellant left in onboard tanks or a laser strike.

The treaties only ban nuclear weapons in space.


There is no point in having a RTG on an Earth-orbiting satellite.
Solar power is free and simple and safe.

RTGs are only used on deep-space missions, far away from the Sun where insolation is so much less.


ETA: And for a space-based particle-beam or laser weapon system you'd need something much more powerful than a RTG.

(Is it a, or an RTG?)

Last Edited by Halcyon Dayz, FCD on 03/02/2015 08:30 PM

Fascinating story given recent reports of Russian satellites 'failing'. They don't just heat up and explode.

Was it stationed over the Ukraine?

They are 'non-persons' they can't even sue out Government and hope to win.

Quote:
Now some one tell us what is a 'Catastrophic Event'

Yup, it was shot down...so more will be shot down soon...within days.

We lose cell phones & the internet & alot of space & weather satalites as well.

CATASTROPHIC!!!

No, but they sure as hell laid waste to the remnants of the previous Clovis culture, the first Europeans here. (descended from the Solutrean culture of France)

Look into the odd distribution of Haplogroup X. Note the distribution of the concentrations.

In actuality I'm meant to imply that space craft could be nuclear powered at that time, not space based nuclear weapons

As for classified military satellites, no matter what their function, they do as they wish....... not necessarily what is normal.

Oh and picky you..... yes it is a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, but an RTG sounds much more pleasing to the ears......LOL

Last Edited by scimitar on 03/02/2015 09:19 PM

What else is going on up there that we do not know about?

military satellites are on the moving orbits and it is rather not easy to hit them

weather satellite is on the high stationary orbit .