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Most likely the tire did blow, but why? NASA has said over and over that the heat inside the left wing was not indicative of a hull breach. This email, posted on NASA's web site, details the scenario of a tire rupturing in the wheel well. Essentially what happens is it blows the hatch off (the overpressure inside the wheel well puts a quarter million pounds of load on the hatch), the hatch flies into the slipstream, then the orbiter is no longer a craft, it's just debris.
NASA has said for two weeks straight that the foam was not the cause of this orbiter breakup, this isn't a guess, they have done the math using a model that overpredicts the damage then overpredicts the effects of that damage and it was deemed NOT A SAFETY CONCERN, and that it would NOT affect the flight properties of the vehicle.
Rich Garcia of the Directed Energy Directorate told the media they had "high-resolution" images of the orbiter taken from Hawaii and from the New Mexico labs. The Directed Energy Directorate makes beamed energy weapons, they've already created and are producing the world's first laser attack aircraft for the Air Force. They use dynamic optics and reflected laser light to compensate for the refraction of the atmosphere in real time. Their dynamic optics have hundreds of actuators and are able to self-adjust to compensate for this refraction due to the atmosphere, enabling them to literally subtract out the interference caused by the atmosphere. What this means is that the atmosphere is not translucent to them, it is transparent (about ninety-five percent more transparent than it is to "normal" optics).
Is this purple beam part of a missile defense system?
NASA orbiter struck by "electrical phenomena" - San Francisco Chronicle - "The pictures, taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage, but the photographer, who asked not to be identified, will not make them public immediately." - February, 2003
Orbiter hit by "purple lightning" - San Francisco Chronicle - "Investigators are combing records from a network of ultra-sensitive instruments that might have detected a faint thunderclap in the upper atmosphere at the same time a photograph taken by a San Francisco astronomer appears to show a purplish bolt of lightning striking the shuttle." - February, 2003
NASA admits photographs of "bolt of something" exist - NASA - "DITTEMORE: I have seen the photo. We have sent the photo off to be examined, to verify its validity. We have not completed that activity yet. We have invited some atmospheric scientists to come to the Johnson Space Center to help us understand is there any phenomena that they know of that might exist in the upper atmosphere." - February, 2003
Starfire uses a telescope for "sending and receiving laser beams" - CRN - industry newsweekly - "For the Starfire Optical Range (SOR), a division of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, near here, measuring the effect of that air turbulence is critical to a project that uses a telescope for sending and receiving laser beams." - January, 2003
Directed Energy Directorate's "plasma projectiles" - Global Security - "Garcia said the directed-energy unit, which also is working on laser weapons, space-based optics and plasma projectiles some have likened to firing a bolt of lightning, has about 600 employees with an annual budget of about $120 million." - February, 2003
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Most likely the tire did blow, but why? NASA has said over and over that the heat inside the left wing was not indicative of a hull breach. This email, posted on NASA's web site, details the scenario of a tire rupturing in the wheel well. Essentially what happens is it blows the hatch off (the overpressure inside the wheel well puts a quarter million pounds of load on the hatch), the hatch flies into the slipstream, then the orbiter is no longer a craft, it's just debris.
NASA has said for two weeks straight that the foam was not the cause of this orbiter breakup, this isn't a guess, they have done the math using a model that overpredicts the damage then overpredicts the effects of that damage and it was deemed NOT A SAFETY CONCERN, and that it would NOT affect the flight properties of the vehicle.
Rich Garcia of the Directed Energy Directorate told the media they had "high-resolution" images of the orbiter taken from Hawaii and from the New Mexico labs. The Directed Energy Directorate makes beamed energy weapons, they've already created and are producing the world's first laser attack aircraft for the Air Force. They use dynamic optics and reflected laser light to compensate for the refraction of the atmosphere in real time. Their dynamic optics have hundreds of actuators and are able to self-adjust to compensate for this refraction due to the atmosphere, enabling them to literally subtract out the interference caused by the atmosphere. What this means is that the atmosphere is not translucent to them, it is transparent (about ninety-five percent more transparent than it is to "normal" optics).
This process not only "takes the twinkle out of stars," it also allows them to use the telescopes to propagate lasers
UP THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE.It's long past time we stopped trying to blame NASA and point the finger where it belongs, at the US Air Force/Directed Energy Directorate.
Is this purple beam part of a missile defense system?
NASA orbiter struck by "electrical phenomena" - San Francisco Chronicle - "The pictures, taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage, but the photographer, who asked not to be identified, will not make them public immediately." - February, 2003
Orbiter hit by "purple lightning" - San Francisco Chronicle - "Investigators are combing records from a network of ultra-sensitive instruments that might have detected a faint thunderclap in the upper atmosphere at the same time a photograph taken by a San Francisco astronomer appears to show a purplish bolt of lightning striking the shuttle." - February, 2003
NASA admits photographs of "bolt of something" exist - NASA - "DITTEMORE: I have seen the photo. We have sent the photo off to be examined, to verify its validity. We have not completed that activity yet. We have invited some atmospheric scientists to come to the Johnson Space Center to help us understand is there any phenomena that they know of that might exist in the upper atmosphere." - February, 2003
Starfire uses a telescope for "sending and receiving laser beams" - CRN - industry newsweekly - "For the Starfire Optical Range (SOR), a division of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, near here, measuring the effect of that air turbulence is critical to a project that uses a telescope for sending and receiving laser beams." - January, 2003
Directed Energy Directorate's "plasma projectiles" - Global Security - "Garcia said the directed-energy unit, which also is working on laser weapons, space-based optics and plasma projectiles some have likened to firing a bolt of lightning, has about 600 employees with an annual budget of about $120 million." - February, 2003
The curiously mislabeled document on NASA's web site. Check the title if you load this document.