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Delta IV Rocket Launched from California with Top Secret Payload (Video)
- jacquesm 16y agoIf Hugo Chavez suddenly suffers from instant flash evaporation you'll know what the payload was.
- frank3 16y agoI seriously doubt that's what the payload is.
- CountSessine 16y agoAnother spy satellite, I guess.
- jacquesm 16y agoYes that would normally be the expectation, but at 23 tonnes you have to wonder.
- mturmon 16y agoAs long as we're making informed guesses: "For an imaging spacecraft to provide truly persistent surveillance capability, the satellite should be in a higher orbit, requiring large-aperture deployable mirrors, in the range of 10-20 meters in diameter." [i.e., need to hover longer over one site -> {higher orbit, larger mirror} -> need bigger rocket] From page 10 of: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/57862449/NPS-Space-Systems-Program http://www.docstoc.com/docs/57862449/NPS-Space-Systems-Progr...