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Or it's all disinformation... dun dun dunnn
by Mrtierne 9y ago
Or it's all disinformation... dun dun dunnn
- oh_sigh 9y agoWhy bother? No one knows what is on the satellite anyway.
- foota 9y agoThere certainly exist people that do.
- oh_sigh 9y agoOkay....I meant 'the public isn't aware'. It should go without saying that the satellite didn't design and assemble itself at this point in time.
- 333c 9y agoPerhaps foreign governments have suspicions, and whatever agency sent it up wants them to think that it failed.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThe facade is only going to last another week if the payload is in orbit and stable (at which point anyone with a telescope will be able to see it). Otherwise, there was a failure on the Northrop Grumman side of the house (they were responsible for mating the payload to the second stage adaptor at their facility due to the classified nature) or this was an ICBM reentry vehicle demonstrator. If you listen during the launch stream, you can hear where video telemetry control is relinquished and passed off to secure ops. That telemetry should make it obvious if fault needs to be assigned. It is not yet certain this is not a misinformation campaign (which would not be without precedent [1]). [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)
- voodooranger 9y agoYeah, those foreign spies will never catch on to this ruse — not like us intrepid HN commenters.
- jessaustin 9y agoAre SpaceX paid extra for this service? Would we know if they were?
- taneq 9y agoSure, that's what they want you to think.