US warships moving into position for satellite shoot down
by Jim MannionTue Feb 19, 4:39 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080219/ts_afp/usmilitarysatellite_080219213911
A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down a defunct US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
Armed with two specially modified interceptor missiles, the USS Lake Erie has been tasked to intercept the satellite over the Pacific, the officials said, adding that the Aegis cruiser is already in waters off Hawaii.
"I'm confident they'll be able to do something," said a senior Navy official. "Once the weapon goes into track, then I think it's a done deal."
The window for the intercept has been open since Sunday, but the Pentagon has waited for the space shuttle Atlantis to land first at the end of its current mission to the International Space Station. That is scheduled to occur at around 9:05 am Wednesday.
The USS Decatur, a guided missile destroyer, is carrying a third interceptor missile in case the first two attempts fail, defense officials said. Another destroyer, the USS Russell, was still in port on Tuesday.
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"Touchdown of the Atlantis opens the window of opportunity for the US military to shoot down that rapidly decaying US intelligence satellite," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary.
A notice to airmen posted Friday on a Pentagon website advised of the closure of a wide span of the northern Pacific beginning 0230 GMT Thursday to 0530 GMT.
Another notice posted on Tuesday advised of a closure 24 hours later of the same area for the same length of time.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said Friday's notice was a "draft" used in an exercise to prepare for the satellite shoot down and should not have been posted.
"It hasn't been issued by the FAA," she said.
The Pentagon is essentially employing the US missile defense system for the shoot-down attempt.
It is training a panoply of Aegis warships, radars and computerized command networks on the schoolbus-sized satellite.
Software changes have been made to the SM-3 interceptor missiles so that they will recognize a satellite in space instead of a ballistic missile -- their normal programmed target -- officials said.
The three-stage missile will carry a maneuverable non-explosive warhead, or "kinetic kill vehicle," that will be guided from the ground until it can use its infrared sensor to steer itself into a shattering collision with the satellite at an altitude of 150 nautical miles.
US Navy ships have intercepted ballistic missile warheads in this way in 12 of 14 tests.
But the Navy official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the satellite poses a somewhat different problem.
It is colder and moving through space at a much higher speed, which will make it more difficult to track than the ballistic missiles that have been intercepted with SM-3 missiles.
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"We're looking at a cold body in space, a body that has been shut down for some time and so it doesn't have the traditional heating up that a ballistic missile has," he said.
The Pentagon hopes to use the warmth the satellite absorbs from sunlight to track it as it descends.
Whereas the closing speeds between SM-3 missiles and ballistic warheads in tests have been about 10 kilometers (six miles) per second, the satellite alone is moving at a speed of eight to 10 kilometers per second and the SM-3 will travel at about four kilometers per second, the official said.
That means that if the USS Lake Eerie misses with its first shot, it will probably have to wait a day to try again.
The longer the wait, the harder the satellite will be to shoot it down because it will be gathering speed as it falls towards the Earth's atmosphere.
The plan is to hit a tank on the satellite carrying the toxic propellant hydrazine, which officials say could pose a threat to humans if it survives re-entry.
Working in favor of the shoot-down is the fact that the satellite is a much bigger target than a one-meter (three-foot) long warhead.
"The system itself is very accurate so hopefully that will translate into being able to hit the tank like we need to hit the tank," said a defense official.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who departs Wednesday on a trip to Australia and Southeast Asia, has been empowered President George W. Bush to authorize the shoot-down, Morrell said.
"Based on the advice he gets he's prepared to do so from the road if necessary," he said.
General Kevin Chilton, the head of the US Strategic Command, will lead the operation.
A National Security Council official says that some of the debris could involve hazardous materials. The satellite is not nuclear-powered so there should be no risk from radioactive materials, although some spacecraft do carry tiny plutonium-powered heaters, but these would not pose a debris hazard
February 20, 2008
US ‘Bending’ Of Atmosphere In Satellite Shootdown Raises Russia-China Concerns
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A most frightening report is circulating in the Kremlin today that states that the ongoing swarm of earthquakes occurring near the giant US Naval Base in San Diego, California, and the giant 7.6 magnitude earthquake hitting in Indonesia today, are ‘direct consequences’ of the United States effort to ‘bend’ our Earth’s atmosphere in an effort to destroy one of their spy satellites.
According to these reports from the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics in Siberia, and where Russian and Chinese scientists monitor the activities of the United States The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska [pictured top left], the American’s intend upon their becoming the first Nation in the World to use the abilities of the potentially catastrophic quantum particle beam accelerators now being developed, but never tested, in ‘real-time’ experiments.
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The exact ‘plan’ of the United States, these reports state, is to use what is termed as a ‘triangulation’ of quantum particle beams originating from their HARRP facility in Alaska, their vast Naval Base in California, and their secretive Indian Ocean base on the Diego Garcia atoll, to ‘alter the space-time continuum’ of our Earth’s electro plasma sheathing in order to ‘lift’ the magnetosphere into the orbit of their orbiting spy satellite so that it will cease its space orbiting and be destroyed.
It must be understood that the complexities of these new quantum weapons systems stagger the human mind in trying to understand them, but to their potential to cause horrific destruction there is no doubt, and as previously warned about by the former United States Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and who stated in his book, "Between Two Ages", that:
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised... Techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
To the success of this United States attempt to use these new types of quantum weapons systems it is not in our knowing, but many Chinese Scientists are already blaming these American experiments with these weapons as being responsible for the catastrophic snow storms to hit their Nation, and which many of them state were in retaliation for China’s threat to dump all of their US Dollar holdings.
Chinese and Russian Leaders have also issued ‘warnings’ to the Americans against conducting these tests, but with both of these Nations knowing that their own quantum weapons systems, though not tested, could be used against the US in retaliation should the Americans not heed their growing concerns.
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It is also interesting to note that the exact timing of this quantum weapons test, by the Americans, is coinciding with the last Total Lunar Eclipse until 2010, and which these reports state the US is dependent upon in their belief that the ‘pull’ being exerted upon our Earth from the Moon during this eclipse will ‘mitigate’ any potentially catastrophic effects that may occur.
It is also being reported in the United States that their Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued to all of their local police and fire departments, Nationwide, a "First Responder Guide for Space Object Re-Entry”, though these reports state that the ‘most likely’ catastrophic effects of this quantum weapons test would be earthquakes, volcanic activity and strange storms.
21 Feb 2008 UPDATE: It is interesting to note that immediately after the US fired their quantum weapon system at their satellite, Norway experienced their worst earthquake in history in their Svalbard archipelago, and which happens to be the location of what is termed the Doomsday seed vault.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1073.htm
THE SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
By Richard Boylan Ph.D.
http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/shadow_gov.html
National Reconnaissance Organization
NRO) (aka MJ-TF), the military/intelligence operations arm of the PI-40 Subcommittee, conducts surveillance, interdiction, capture and confiscation of UFOs and their extra-terrestrial occupants for intelligence and "International Security" purposes; surveilles and "interacts" with close encounter experiencers, including occasional physically and sexually assaultive mind control kidnappings disguised as "Alien abductions" for psychological warfare and dis-informational purposes, headquarters unknown, probably compartmented and dispersed among various elite Delta Force Special Operations units, such as the USAF Blue Light at Hurlburt Field, Mary Esther, FL and Beale Air Force Base, Marysville, CA.
National Reconnaissance Office
(NRO), controls and collects information from global spy satellites, monitors UFO traffic entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere, coordinates firing of energy beam weapons from orbiting Star Wars satellites at selected human ground and airborne targets and selectively at extra-terrestrial craft, Pentagon basement and Dulles Airport area, VA
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://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061215/launch.shtml
USA-193/NROL-21 launched on December 13, 2006, at 2100 UTC (1600 EST) from the Western Test Range, Vandenberg AFB
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こちらはNROのオフィシャルサイトの情報。情報開示はインフォメーションフリーダムアクトにのっとっていると書いてある。日にちは12月14日。
NRO satellite successfully launched aboard Delta II
A National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload was successfully launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 2 West, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, at 4:00 p.m. EST, on Dec. 14, 2006.
(中略)
The NRO develops and operates unique and innovative overhead reconnaissance systems and conducts intelligence-related activities essential for U.S. national security.
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何故かNGワードが入る(中略)部分の日本語訳は、Col James Norman、NROミッションディレクターによると、このサテライトの成功は全政府と産業界の努力のたまものである。
どうしてNGになるのかわかりません。