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USAF's Robotic X-37B Orbiter Launched For Test Flight
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "The United States Air Force's novel robotic X-37B space plane is tucked inside the bulbous nose cone of an unmanned rocket that blasted off Thursday from Florida on a mission shrouded in secrecy. ... The unmanned military Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (OTV-1) — also known as the X-37B — lifted off at 7:52 pm EDT atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a mission that is expected to take months testing new spacecraft technologies. ... Key objectives of the space plane's first flight include demonstration and validation of guidance, navigation, and control systems – including a 'do-it-itself' autonomous re-entry and landing at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base with neighboring Edwards Air Force Base as a backup."
Exactly! I took over 20 years for american military scientist to decipher Buran's documentation and clone the technology. This again proves my theory that the cyrylic alphabet is best cipher out there!
The purpose of the X-37 is for several things.
* Spy satellite recapture.
* Spy satellite de-orbit (killing).
* Rapid satellite deployment.
* As a communications platform of Network Centric Ops.
* Look-e-looing.
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And undoubtedly it's also the easiest alphabet with which to spell "cyrillic?"
Heh, or you could go cheap and employ Chineses to do that :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_921-2
(China plans a space station for 2012)
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Yup. There is a foreign submarine bearing a nuclear bomb armed missile or three, off your coast right now...
My country doesn't have a coast, you insensitive clod!
Exactly. The scenario plays out like this:
U.S.: What a nice satellite you've got there, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it.
Them: What satellite? (It's a spy satellite, so they're not going to admit anything of course.)
U.S.: Well, we have other plans for that orbit. And we know it's there. So you should... You know...
Them: Nyuh uh...
U.S.: *Yoink!*
U.S.: Yeah, you were right. There wasn't a satellite there. My bad.