SATELLITE THE SIZE OF A BUS

TO CRASH IN THE UNITED STATES

MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN WAYWARD SATELLITE!  2-20-08

compiled by Dee Finney

SPY-SAT UPDATE: Rumor has it that the US Navy may make its first attempt to hit USA 193 this Wednesday evening as the satellite passes over the Pacific Ocean. An air traffic advisory warns pilots to avoid a patch of ocean near Maui from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Hawaii time on Feb. 20th (0230 - 0500 UT, Feb. 21st). This would center the missile strike on the darkness of Wednesday's lunar eclipse and possibly render reentering debris visible from the west coast of North America: comment.

The U.S. government issued a formal notice warning ships and planes to stay clear of a large area of the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii.  The notice says the two- and-a-half hour window begins 2:30 a.m. Thursday Greenwich Mean Time, which is 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on the East Coast, and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hawaii.

CNN VIDEO FEED

Passover of Hawai'i = 3:30 UTC Feb. 21 (which is Feb. 20 for the U.S.)

Local times for shoot down attempt/pass over of Hawai'i:

Hawai'i = 5:30 PM (17:30)
Pacific Time = 7:30 PM (19:30)
Mountain Time = 8:30 PM (20:30)
Central Time = 9:30 PM (21:30)
Eastern Time = 10:30 PM (22:30)

10:26 PM is Mid-eclipse time for Eastern

Until the satellite is shot down, it remains visible to sky watchers who know when to look. Amateur astronomer Dan Bush photographed USA-193 this evening as it passed over Albany, Missouri:

"It was moving right along (quickly) and gave the appearance of being out of control," says Bush. "This is a 15 second exposure using my Nikon D200 at ISO 640." Experienced sky watchers estimate the brightness of the satellite in the magnitude range +1.5 to -0.5, i.e., similar to the stars of Orion and an easy target for off-the-shelf digital cameras.

Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwright points to a video during
news conference  at the Pentagon, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008,
hours after a Navy missile scored a direct hit on
the failing spacecraft. (AP Photo/Heesoon Yim)

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE: On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over Europe and the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red. It's a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010. When should you look? Click here for an animated timetable.
 

US tracks spy satellite falling to Earth

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US government Sunday was monitoring a spy satellite expected to crash to Earth after it lost power, raising environmental concerns and uncertainty over where it will land.

"The Department of Defense is currently monitoring the situation," Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Karen Finn told AFP, confirming that the satellite was "de-orbiting."

She declined to comment on reports, citing government officials, that the satellite contained hazardous substances that may leak after it plunges to the Earth out of control, which according to media reports could happen by late February or early March.

Finn also declined to say what kind of satellite it is. The New York Times cited satellite monitoring experts who believe it is an experimental imagery satellite launched in 2006.

The United States has a thick web of billion-dollar satellites monitoring the Earth, some including high-powered telescopes or radars, with the capability to zoom in and help launch precision strikes on enemy targets.

The satellite's impending fall from orbit has given rise to worries that it might leak out highly dangerous substances.

Spy satellites are frequently maneuvered in space, in relatively low orbit, to meet military surveillance needs, requiring them to be tanked up with highly toxic hydrazine fuel, according to specialists.

Hydrazine is harmful to the human central nervous system and can be fatal in big doses. However it breaks down quickly in heat and ultra-violet light, the French security agency Ineris said in a report.

Specialists cited in the New York Times said the hydrazine would burn off if the fuel tank breaks, as is likely, when re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

Some satellites run on nuclear batteries powered by plutonium or enriched uranium, the type used by space probes that have to blast into orbit far above Earth.

"Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe told AFP in an e-mail Saturday.

"We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this may cause."

In January 1978 a Russian Cosmos 954 nuclear-powered spy satellite crashed into the northern Canadian wilderness.

Another Cosmos satellite broke up over the Indian Ocean in 1983. Traces of its plutonium were detected in snow falling as far away as the southern US state of Arkansas.

Engineers from the US space agency NASA used rockets aboard one satellite to bring it down over the Pacific Ocean in 2000, and officials believe debris from a disintegrated science satellite fell into the Persian Gulf in 2002, the Los Angeles Times reported.

 

3.5-ton satellite falling back to Earth

January 30, 2002 Posted: 10:12 PM EST (0312 GMT)

By Richard Stenger
CNN Sci-Tech

(CNN) -- A retired satellite with no onboard steering system should re -enter Earth's atmosphere within hours and leave a trail of debris in its wake, NASA cautioned Wednesday.

The defunct space telescope will tumble into the atmosphere Wednesday at about 11 p.m. ET, NASA scientists predicted.

Most of the doomed satellite will burn up in the atmosphere, but a handful of metal chunks could survive, ranging from four pounds to 100 pounds (1.8 kg to 45 kg), NASA space flight engineers said.

Fragments of the 3.5-ton orbiter could scatter along a trail extending up to 625 miles (1,000 km) long, somewhere in the middle latitudes on either side of the equator, according to NASA.

Predictions of when and where the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) will drop from orbit remain sketchy because it will fall in an uncontrolled manner. As of Wednesday evening, EUVE was about 100 miles (160 km) above Earth, but is losing about 15.5 miles (25 km) of altitude each day.

VIDEO
Where EUVE might fall and what it looks like in space  (MPEG / 1M) Courtesy: Analytical Graphics, Inc
 
DANGER ZONE
Target area extends along either side of Equator. 
 
 Mission at a glance
Satellite: Extreme Ultraviolet Energy Explorer

Weight: 7,000 pounds (3,200 kilograms)

Lifetime: Launched in 1992 from Cape Canaveral, EUVE conducted observations until 2000

Instruments: Three scanning telescopes and a deep sky survey spectrometer

Highlights: Offered new insights into comets, white dwarfs and the atmospheres of stars

It is expected to begin breaking up when it descends to within 50 miles (80 km), take four or five final 90-minute laps around Earth and then re-enter the atmosphere.

The re-entry window extends along the middle latitudes, from as far north as Orlando, Florida, and as far south as Brisbane, Australia.

The danger area covers parts of Florida, South and Central America, the Caribbean, much of Africa, South Asia and Indonesia. Major cities in the red zone include Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and Bangkok, Thailand.

Trying to peg the bulls-eye on the planet has frustrated NASA. The space agency suggested early Wednesday that EUVE chunks would fall in the South Pacific. Hours later, it speculated that they would land east of South America.

"Based on the latest … predictions and the predicted debris field it is believed the heavier objects will fall harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean," reported the Web site of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which tracks almost 9,000 objects in orbit, declined to conjecture on where it would land.

"Quite frankly, they're predictions and there are so many variables we can't control," said Maj. Barry Venable, U.S. Space Command spokesman.

Launched in 1992, EUVE was the first space observatory dedicated to studying extreme ultraviolet light. The $215 million satellite lasted much longer than its intended three years, studying celestial objects first for NASA and later the University of California, Berkeley, until it ceased operations one year ago.

In contrast to EUVE's uncontrolled descent, NASA in 2000 safely guided the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory into the ocean because the 17-ton craft had an onboard steering system.

Likewise, in 2001, Russian ground controllers relied on similar means to coax the 135-ton Mir space station, the heaviest object in Earth orbit besides the moon, into its watery grave without a hitch.

The most massive NASA spacecraft to re-enter the atmosphere in an uncontrolled descent was the 78-ton Skylab space station, which in 1979 scattered debris in the Indian Ocean and an isolated stretch of Western Australia.

Orbital debris has never been known to have injured a human, but legend has it a chunk of Skylab brought an untimely end to an Australian cow.

 
 
Russia: US Satellite Shot a Weapons Test

February 16, 2008
 

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America's missile defense system.

The Pentagon failed to provide "enough arguments" to back its plan to smash the satellite next week with a missile, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"There is an impression that the United States is trying to use the accident with its satellite to test its national anti-missile defense system's capability to destroy other countries' satellites," the ministry said.

The Bush administration says the operation is not a test of a program to kill other nations' orbiting communications and intelligence capabilities. U.S. diplomats around the world have been instructed to inform governments that it is meant to protect people from 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel on the bus-sized satellite hurtling toward Earth.

The diplomats were told to distinguish the upcoming attempt from last year's test by China of a missile specifically designed to take out satellites, which was criticized by the United States and other countries.

Known by its military designation US 193, the satellite was launched in December 2006. It lost power and its central computer failed almost immediately afterward, leaving it uncontrollable. It carried a sophisticated and secret imaging sensor.

Left alone, the satellite would likely hit Earth during the first week of March. About half of the 5,000-pound spacecraft would probably survive its blazing descent through the atmosphere and would scatter debris over several hundred miles.

Military and administration officials said the satellite is carrying fuel called hydrazine that could injure or kill people who are near it when it hits the ground.

The operation to shoot down the dead satellite could happen as soon as next week.


Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved


Saturday, February 16, 2008

Observing the Planning to Intercept US 193
 
It is going to be difficult to match Noah and the crew at Danger Room in their coverage of the intercept of US 193 shoot down, they are doing a masterful job, but there are a few things we feel we can add to the discussion.

We are not really interested in the politics, people will complain about anything, bottom line there is no treaty violation here nor was there a treaty violation by China. China's only mistake was not to warn everyone else what they were doing, something the Bush administration has done which is what has generated the criticism in the first place. The political aspects are a waste of time, in reality this is the first thing this administration has done in regards to any space program that has caught our attention, that it is military related should surprise nobody.

From our perspective, we note the Navy specific events that are unfolding in this shoot down, starting with the plan.

The Navy has issued orders to USS Lake Erie (CG 70), USS Decatur (DDG 73), and USS Russell (DDG 59) to take out the satellite. All three ships have the AEGIS technology to fire the SM-3, and all three ships have been involved in previous AEGIS ballistic missile defense tests, with both the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) and USS Decatur (DDG 73) successfully shooting down a test target. Additionally, USNS Observation Island (T-AGM 23) will track the satellite and collect information for the intercept, including the evaluation of the debris field. We believe the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) will be the shooter, Capt. Randall Hendrickson has commanded four previous AEGIS BMD tests and is the most experienced Captain in the Navy in the ballistic missile defense mission.

According to CNN, three SM-3s have been modified for the intercept.
 
"They want the period of a day or two to assess the effect of the first missile ... to probably get an orbit or two, to get an understanding of what effect the first intercept had on the satellite before launching another interceptor," Ham said.

While some might assume this is because the SM-3 will miss, we are thinking this might be for a second shot because one may not be enough. There is a suggestion the fuel tank with the hydrazine is the primary target. That may be true, but it seems to us the secondary target should be the Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) that needs to be broken into smaller pieces as well to insure burn up.

Another reason we believe the Navy may take more than one shot is the details and requirements. Jeffery Lewis describes the details.
  1. The intercept will occur at 240 kilometers (130 nautical miles)
  2. The mass of the satellite is 2,300 kg (5,000 pounds)
  3. The mass of the interceptor is 20 kg. (From CBO)
  4. The closing velocity will be 9.8 km/s (22,000 mph), suggesting a virtually head-on collision.

The satellite is about the size of a greyhound bus. The SM-3 KEI warhead unleashes about the same kinetic force of a 10 ton truck hitting a wall at 600 mph. While it is possible one shot will work, it is also more than possible the first hit will shred everything on the satellite except for the hardened hydrazine tank and Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), or more likely knock out one or the other, which will force a second shot.

The SM-3 is designed to bring down ballistic missiles with the desire to prevent accuracy of weapons of war, but we note SM-3 tests in the past have not completely shredded ballistic missiles, instead shattering the intercepted portion of the missile leaving some large pieces to be thrown harmlessly into the ocean. It is a very effective system for that type of interception, but for the purposes of shattering a large satellite into tiny pieces, we aren't so sure.

It has been suggested this will become a new capability of AEGIS. Maybe, but not for a long time. AEGIS BMD is largely misunderstood, or not understood, so many assumptions made by the press and even ballistics observers is done in ignorance or with speculation. They Navy currently operates 17 cruisers and destroyers with AEGIS ballistic missile defense, but only 3 cruisers and 6 destroyers can actually shoot down a ballistic missile, with the rest only capable of tracking targets.

For AEGIS BMD accuracy, more than one ship is required, what is sometimes referred to as a tracker and a shooter. They share information to confirm tracking data, and the design is such that either ship can be the terminal intercept guidance platform, but to be accurate multiple tracking systems are required. The choice of three ships is not unexpected, this allows for multiple trackers.

The 9 ships able to conduct intercept operate what is known as the 3.6 version of AEGIS ballistic missile defense. They are USS Lake Erie (CG 70), USS Shiloh (CG 67), USS Port Royal (CG 73), USS Decatur (DDG 73) , USS Stethem (DDG 63), USS Russell (DDG 59), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), and USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54). The rest of the AEGIS ships converted to AEGIS ballistic missile defense use what is known as Long Range Surveillance & Tracking (LRS&T), also known as AEGIS BMD 3.0. As of today there are 17 total AEGIS ships converted to either version 3.6 or 3.0, but we only know the identity of 16.

The problem with version 3.0 is that ballistic missile defense is a toggle, a ship can either conduct normal AEGIS defense roles against conventional missiles, or ballistic missile defense, not both at the same time. The attack on the HMS Sheffield (D80) is a case study in why either/or capabilities are dangerous.

The SM-3 Block IA was thought to only have a range of over 500 kilometers and max altitude of 160 kilometers, but the details of this intercept describe the intercept to take place at an altitude of 240 kilometers. This is a previously undisclosed detail of the SM-3 Block IA, Using the data collected by Jeffery Lewis, one can imply that the actual maximum altitude is much higher.

Finally, we want to highlight that AEGIS BMD isn't the only capability that could shoot down this satellite, there were several options, so the reason the Navy was chosen should be highlighted. Quite honestly, it is the only system that works as advertised. This blog will not hide the fact we believe the Missile Defense Agency needs to be imploded, we are anything but impressed with what has been produced to date. When it comes to missile defense it has been a wasteful spending juggernaut, but has spent hardly any of its budget investing in AEGIS ballistic missile defense, instead paying extraordinary amounts of money for 'reach for the moon' capabilities that have continuously been over budget with a lack of justified results for the cost.

Between FY1995 and FY2007, the Missile Defense Agency had invested a total of $7,012,400,000 in AEGIS ballistic missile defense, an average of a around $585M per year. Compared to the total MDA budget, this is an incredibly small annual percentage. Between FY08-FY13 the MDA intends to spend about 7%, around $6.5B of its estimate $51B total budget on AEGIS ballistic missile defense. AEGIS ballistic missile defense has long been the red-headed step child of the Missile Defense Agency budget, and yet in the door walks this scenario, and the MDA is calling on the Navy to carry the water for them and produce a success story, so they can get more money from Congress for other missile defense programs.

I hope someone in the media picks up on that fact, it is a big part of this story that needs to be told.

Additional observations by SteelJaw Scribe.
Track the satellite in real-time here, refresh, map at the bottom of page.

http://www.heavens-above.com/usa193.aspx?

 

Satellite return may be challenging

U.S. military hopes to destroy out-of-control spy satellite before it reaches earth

BY NANCY HOGLAND |
 February 17, 2008

A satellite that could have been used to survey damage from disasters now has the potential of causing one.

Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, who heads the U.S. Northern Command, said an out-of-control spy satellite, estimated to be about the size of a school bus -- is falling to Earth and is expected to land in late February or early March – possibly somewhere on this continent.

“We're aware that this satellite is out there,” Renuart said. “We're aware it is a fairly substantial size. And we know there is at least some percentage that it could land on ground as opposed to in the water. As it looks like it might re-enter into the North American area, then the U.S. military along with the Homeland Security Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will either have to deal with the impact or assist Canadian or Mexican authorities.”

In an attempt to avoid such a situation, Gen. James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced last week that a modified version of the Aegis Sea-Based Missile Defense system will be used in an attempt to intercept the falling U.S. satellite and destroy it before it hits the earth.

President George Bush approved the attempt, military officials said, because the satellite’s fuel tank might survive a crash and spread the rocket fuel, hydrazine, possibly endangering humans. The shoot-down attempt will occur some time after the NASA Shuttle returns this week.

The satellite, typically used to gather visual information about adversarial governments and terror groups and to survey damage from hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters, was launched in December 2006. However, it lost power and its central computer system failed shortly after take-off.

Unfortunately, if the missile intercept is not successful, it will be difficult to predict where the point of impact will be until the satellite falls to about 59 miles above the Earth and enters the atmosphere. It will then begin to burn up, with flares visible from the ground, said Ted Molczan, a Canadian satellite tracker. From that point on, he said, it will take about 30 minutes to fall.

According to Chuck May, the manager of the Planning and Disaster Recover Branch of Missouri State Emergency Management (SEMA), this short notice would make it next to impossible to warn people of the impending danger.

“If NASA or Department of Defense officials learned that chunks of the satellite were going to hit anywhere in the U.S., of course, they would do what they could to notify people, but obviously it would all tie down to how much warning we had,” he said. “With only 30 minutes notice, I don’t know what could be done. If county or law enforcement officials could be notified in time to warn people, they would. But there are so many ‘ifs,’ it’s hard to say exactly what measures could be taken.”

The military plan to attempt to intercept the satellite has been hailed by advocates of missile defense systems as a prime example of the peaceful benefits of the weapons. “The investment and the proven technology of our country's missile defense systems has given our nation and our military an option which it never had before to protect human life globally from falling objects from space,” said Riki Ellison, president of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. “Our country's investment and leadership internationally in Missile Defense provides global options that make our world a safer place,” he added.

But the plan has drawn criticism from those who see it as a way to justify anti-satellite missile systems. "In the history of the space age, there has not been a single human being who has been harmed by man-made objects falling from space," Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, told the Washington Post. "There has to be another reason behind this.”

However, if the missile is not able to shoot down the satellite and it actually hits a populated area, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and disaster response organizations may have to respond.

“With a couple exceptions, emergency response plans are set up to respond to all hazards. The exceptions would be catastrophic events that are area specific – in Missouri we have additional plans in the event of a New Madrid fault quake; Florida’s plans include hurricane response. However, no one at either the state or federal level has developed anything specifically dealing with incoming asteroids or other items falling from the sky,” May said.

Matt Hackworth, communications officer with Church World Service, a relief ministry umbrella for 35 Protestant, orthodox and Anglican denominations, said his group prepares for disasters of every kind.

“Our job is to respond to disasters of any kind – natural or technological. We do have measures in place to work remotely in case New York, our headquarters, was impacted. But we aren’t exactly ‘disaster specific.’

“Besides, look at Greensburg, Kansas. Their claim to fame was that they were hit by a meteorite. They weren’t obliterated by an asteroid, but instead by a tornado.”

Asteroids have, however, done their share of damage. In 1908, an asteroid exploded in the air above Siberia, flattening thousands of square miles of forest. More than 150 meteor crashes have carved out craters in Arizona, Missouri and on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. They continue to keep sky watchers glued to their telescopes.

In the past few years, scientists and astronomers had been keeping a close eye on two asteroids in particular – one named 1997 XF11 and on another dubbed 2004 MN4.

In 1998, XF11 was originally thought to be on a collision course with Earth with a direct hit expected on Oct. 26, 2028. However, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which has closely monitored its orbits over the past 10 years, now estimates XF11’s passage at 591,000 miles away or about 2.5 times farther than the moon.

In December 2004, scientists set the odds at 1 in 37 that the giant space rock 2004 MN4 would slam into earth on April 13, 2029. And while the asteroid will still be making a close brush, at less than 30,000 miles, scientists said additional observations had reduced the chance of impact to zero.

Although scientists with the NASA’s Near Earth Object Program report they are not concerned about the two asteroids, or any of the other 108 on the watch list of “potentially hazardous objects,” they, along with the U.S. Space Command and the Department of Defense continue to refine a process that will allow them to gather and analyze date regarding impending Earth impacts from asteroids or comets, assess possible damage stemming from such an impact and to notify top officials. They are expected to also evaluate possible evacuations or emergency preparations.

In the meantime, scientists agree that it is only a matter of time before another comet hits home.

“It's like a game of cosmic darts,” said astronomer Clark Chapman on the PBS show Nova. “It could just as likely happen tomorrow as some day 300,000 years from now.”

And if falling satellites and asteroids aren’t enough to keep you awake at night, scientists are looking upward, waiting and watching for the next major solar storm, which has the potential of wiping out all communications.

At more than 869,919 miles wide, the sun makes up approximately 99.86 percent of the mass of the entire solar system. The total energy radiated by the sun averages 383 billion trillion kilowatts, the amount of energy generated by the explosion of 100 billion tons of TNT every second.

However, the energy released by the sun is not always constant. Once in a while, the sun releases an even larger amount of energy with intense magnetic fields in the form of a solar flare – an explosive burst of hot gasses.

In 1859, solar observers noted the development of numerous sunspots on the sun's surface. What followed was an explosive release of magnetically charged energy that reached the earth’s surface in hours. The magnetic fields, in direct opposition with the earth’s magnetic fields, were so intense that there were severe interruptions of communications systems. Telegraph wires were burned to a crisp and created wildfires as they dropped to the ground.

Since that time, other solar storms have caused major malfunctions to communications satellites and affected television, radio and telephone signals.

Hackworth said such an event, on the back of another disaster, could be disastrous to organizations that rely on communications.

“Can you imagine a disaster where you couldn’t make a conference call to coordinate the response? The disaster world relies on communication. More and more we rely on technology to assist us in our work. If we had a major breakdown in communications, whether it be from huge solar flares or from an EMP bomb, we would have massive problems,” he said.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/euve/euve.html
 

The truth about satellite USA-193 - URGENT

THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAD YOU'VE EVER READ! THIS IS NO JOKE AND THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS 100% ACCURATE AND HONEST.
 
This thread was started on a blog about two weeks ago giving updates on the falling satellite. For some unknown reason people didn't pay attention, so I am asking you to please read what I have to say here. I am going to discuss a couple of different concerns along with updates on usa-193'S 'strike-zone'. I have an extremely reliable & trustworthy source for inside information. This info is coming from a family member (1st cousin) who is a very high-ranking official with the New York JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force). USA-193 is currently the greatest known threat/risk to our country!

[link to www.fbi.gov]

The only reason my cousin is willing to share this information is because of the extremely high threat risk associated with USA-193. I don't have any 'shocking' news, but I have news that confirms a lot of speculations.

First I will give an update on who's 'at-risk' as of my last briefing given to me at 0900, 2.17.08. The following info doesn't account for a missile strike, this is strictly where US-193 is due to land with no intereference. The area of concern still remains the Pacific Northwest. The current warning ranges from Eugene Oregon to Kamloops BC (Canada). That's just the north-south range. Current models show less than .005% chance of a harmless water strike (currently a land strike is imminent). The models show that there is a warning for Western Idaho and parts of NW Nevada. These warnings only show the current crash zone for USA-193, not the anticipated debris field! Obviously debris can come down hundreds if-not 'thousands' of miles away. Currently there are no parts of Northern California in the 'red-zone'.

This is info that the govt follows and believes. I am told by my cousin that if something goes wrong with the missile strike or there remains a 'high-risk' after the missile strike that the govt will ONLY give us a 26-28 minute warning! Obviously this is unacceptable.

I do have some info that I cannot share, but it is the most important info and you must pay attention closely! We are going to play a very simple 'read-between-the-lines' game here as I'm sure it will reveal the info I can't share. Please take notice that this info was confirmed to me this morning and isn't speculation. I swear to everyone out there, that this is quite possibly the most important thread on GLP!!!

Here it goes...

We all know that the Pentagon has listed 'Hydrazine' (rocket fuel) as being onboard the satellite and a major concern. They have also listed a second substance/material as being a major concern and that's
'Beryllium'. Now this is extremely odd as beryllium isn't a harmful material and is used in making shuttles & satellites, so why list it as a major concern?

Here's why!.. (from Wiki - complete link @ bottom of blurb)

Nuclear

Beryllium is used in nuclear weapon designsas the outer layer of the pit of the primary stage, surrounding the fissile material. It is a good pusher for implosion, and the best possible neutron reflector, reducing the critical mass needed for a fission chain reaction and increasing the proportion of fuel that fissions, while itself adding little mass to the weapon. It is a poor tamper because of its low mass, but this is unimportant in fusion-boosted fission weapons. As a light element with few electrons, the fission explosion completely ionizes it quickly, making it transparent to X-rays and letting the energy from a primary fission explosion escape for radiation implosion of a secondary fusion stage.

To learn more about 'Beryllium' (and how it, normally, isn't harmful) click here, [link to en.wikipedia.org]

I have noticed that some news articles pertaining to the 'Beryllium' factor have been removed from the web. In particular one that was directly from an AirForce General who stated on 1/29/08 that the satellite could hit the USA. There are still articles and videos that show the Pentagon stating that the beryllium is a grave concern. It ONLY makes sense with the above pasted Wikipedia article.

Obviously the US Govt would NEVER admit to the beryllium being on-board for the above mentioned reason, as we have already gotten heat from Russia and China.

It also explains why they are taking a shot at the satellite WAY earlier than previously stated. The originally wanted to take a shot 'MOMENTS' before it hit the atmosphere so the debris would cause troubles in space. They are now planning on taking their first shot 10-14 days sooner than planned. I do believe it is however going to hit sooner than March (as they stated), but this is just a feeling from tracking it live online. There are a couple of great sites for tracking it. My favorite site was working beautifully, but now only works about 40% of the time (geez wonder why that is!). Make sure you sign up for both these sites and really explore them, as you can track and map 'visible passes' for your exact location. I have posted the links at the bottom of this thread.

Thousands of satellites have fallen from the sky, hell thousands have fallen from the sky in the past 5-years. NEVER has a single satellite gotten this type of attention, especially from the President of the United States (and other countries). The government is doing 'just enough' to make us aware that there 'may' be danger, but once again are keeping huge secrets from us. The bottom line is that there is a great chance for substantial loss of life and people need to know the truth. I beg of you to keep a close eye on this! I will post updates as soon as I get them.

www.n2yo.com - By far the best site I have found, as it tracks USA-193 LIVE! Please send them e-mails as I have in hopes they fix whatever problems they are having with the site. In the description of USA-193 they mention the 'beryllium'.
www.heavens-above.com - Another great site, but not nearly as good as n2yo.com.

The truth about satellite USA-193 - URGENT


I thought I was signed in when I posted this, but I guess not. Here's some more info from www.n2yo.com

I am able to get onto the homepage, but when I go to USA-193 it's not working. It's not showing the satellite nor is it showing my info, as it was in the past. I do believe the government is raising hell on this great site.

NORAD ID: 29651
Int'l Code: 2006-057A
Perigee: 407 km
Apogee: 421 km
Inclination: 40°
Period: 92.8 min
Launch date: 2006-12-14
Source: United States (US)

Comments: USA 193 is an American military satellite that was launched from Vandenberg AFB at 21:00 UT on 14 December 2006. It is a highly classified spacecraft, owned and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). No further details are available. In January 2008, reports emerged that a U.S. spy satellite, again probably this one, was in a deteriorating orbit, and that the object was expected to crash into the Earth within weeks. Early reports indicated that the satellite could contain "hazardous materials", probably hydrazine, and possibly beryllium,though there was also some speculation that the satellite might have a "nuclear" power core, i.e. a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Defense consultant John E. Pike dismissed this as "unlikely". (according to Wikipedia) On January 29, 2008, an Associated Press story quoted a U.S. Air Force general as saying that contingency plans were being made since intact pieces of the satellite "might re-enter into the North American area".
 

Australia prepares for falling satellite

February 18, 2008 -
 

Police, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and Emergency Management Australia are all on standby as the United States prepares to shoot down a failed spy satellite.

The US military has said it hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week - just before it enters Earth's atmosphere - with a single missile fired from a US Navy cruiser in the northern Pacific Ocean.

The US has told Australia and a handful of other nations to be on standby for falling debris from the highly classified satellite, because there is a minute possibility of the strike misfiring and debris falling on land rather than water.

"The Australian government has been advised formally by the US government that the president (George W Bush) has authorised the US Department of Defence to attempt to shoot down an inoperable satellite," a DFAT spokesman said.

"There is no suggestion at this stage that the satellite will land in Australia, but it is too early to predict where it might come down if the US is not successful in destroying it in space.

"The US told us in advance of the public announcement and will no doubt keep us closely informed.

"The US has contacted several other countries and we appreciate their openness on this."

If the satellite does land in Australian airspace - 10 per cent of the globe - then Emergency Management Australia will take over any response.

NSW police also have been placed on alert and officers forwarded a plan on how to cope with re-entering space debris.

A police spokeswoman said Deputy Commissioner Dave Owens was overseeing NSW preparations.

The US is planning to use an Standard SM-3 missile to hit the satellite - the first such strike ever conducted by the US.

China successfully conducted a similar mission last year, much to the consternation of western nations.

Russia and China are now voicing their own concerns about the US strike.

The US has insisted the plan to shoot down the satellite is not a test of a program to kill other nations' orbiting communications and intelligence capabilities.

The Bush administration and US military officials have said the bus-sized satellite is carrying a fuel called hydrazine that could injure or even kill people who are near it when it hits the ground.

US diplomats around the world were instructed to inform other nations that the operation was meant to protect people from the satellite's blazing descent and the toxic fuel it was carrying.

The diplomats also were told to distinguish the US operation from China's much criticised test last year, when it used a missile to destroy a defunct weather satellite.

Left alone, the satellite would likely hit Earth during the first week of March.

About half of the 2,268kg spacecraft would be expected to survive the fall and would scatter debris over several hundred kilometres.

Known by its military designation US 193, the satellite carrying a sophisticated and secret imaging sensor was launched in December 2006.

It lost power and its central computer failed almost immediately afterward.

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February 18, 2008

US War Leaders Flee America During Most Dangerous Week

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

Russian Military Analysts are reporting today on their growing concerns over some of the United States top war leaders ‘fleeing’ their Nation this week, and which these reports state could very well be the ‘most pivotal week for our [Russias] future’.

President Bush is being reported in the Western media to be on an ‘extended’ tour of African Nations while his Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is reported to be traveling to Kenya, South Korea and Japan. Vice President Cheney, and as is the custom in the US when their President leaves their Nation, is reported to be in ‘hiding’ as concerns mount over the February 8th Pentagon ‘attack’ on US Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

[To that February 8th attack against the US Defense Secretary, and as these reports state, a dissident Neocon led putsch had targeted him at his Pentagon headquarters, and which Western media reports state was ‘evacuated’ due to smoke and Defense Secretary Gates injuries, fractured right shoulder, were due to his ‘falling on ice’.]

Of the greatest concerns about this week to Russia, according to these reports, is the ‘illegal’, Western backed, breaking away of the Serbian province of Kosovo and the United States planned space weapon test targeting one of he influence’ and between tf February 7, 2008 and the Total Lunar Eclipse on February 20/21 which ‘targets’ North America and Western Europe, and which will be the last Total Eclipse of our moon until December 21, 2010.

Russian Scientific Astronomers have long noted how the power elite in the United States ‘schedule’ their most horrific events between adjoining Solar and/or Lunar eclipses, to include: The November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (set between the Total Solar Eclipse of July 20, 1963 and Total Lunar Eclipse of December 30, 1963), and the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the United States (set between the Total Solar Eclipse of June 21, 2001 and the Annual Solar Eclipse of December 14, 2001).

Though Russia has warned the US and European Union against creating a “serious precedent” by recognizing Kosovo, these warnings have fallen upon deaf ears as the United Kingdom has rushed its last remaining 1,000 Soldiers to the Balkans and the American President has stated that his Nation will recognize Serbia’s breakaway region.

However, Russian warnings on Kosovo do, indeed, appear to be coming true as the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Western backed Georgia are now calling for their independence along with the Chechen peoples in Russia.

Not being understood by the Western peoples is that a Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, or a Western recognition of Chechnya, as independent Nations would trigger Total War between the East and the West.

In their knowing of this brutal reality, as these reports continue, the United States War Leaders have ‘created’ a false story about one of their spy satellites being out of control and falling to Earth and to be ‘ concerns known to the US about this space missile test, and is reported to be ‘greatly dismayed’ that the actions of the US War Leaders are a direct defiance to this past weeks Chinese-Russian proposal for the banning of all weapons in space.

Russian Military Analysts are stating that this test of their space based missile systems is a ‘necessity’ for the Americans prior to the launching of Total War, of which they state Iran and Syria will be the first target of and to be followed by strikes on Russia and China.

Driving the West in their frenzy to engulf the World in Total Warfare, say Russian Economists, is the rapid disintegration of their economic system, of which, they state, the ‘worst is yet to come’ as their ‘obscure’ credit default swaps are nearing collapse, and which the International Herald Tribune News Service estimates to be over $45 Trillion, nearly ‘twice the size of the entire United States stock market’. 

To the American people themselves, however, and who live in a Nation where the rabbits from their Great Yellowstone National Park have ‘disappeared’, as reported by ScienceDaily.Com, where the bats in their Northeastern regions ‘are mysteriously dying by the thousands’, as reported by the Associated Press News Service, and where ‘tens of billions of their honeybees have mysteriously died off’, as reported by the Star-Gazette News Service, to all of these, and more, it remains the sad fact that no warning, about anything, issued by anyone, even to their own senses, even to nature, even to the signs of the stars, can awaken them to the true state of the catastrophic dangers they are facing. 

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U.S. issues notice on downing of satellite

2-19-08

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy likely will make its first attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite Wednesday night.

The U.S. government issued a formal notice warning ships and planes to stay clear of a large area of the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii.

The notice says the two- and-a-half hour window begins 2:30 a.m. Thursday Greenwich Mean Time, which is 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on the East Coast, and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hawaii.

The timing is also after the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to be safely on the ground.

Pentagon officials caution that the notice reflects the first opportunity to take a shot at the satellite, but it's possible the attempt could be delayed until later.

"We have to make the notification, but it's possible the conditions won't be ideal, or that everything won't be ready," said a Pentagon official who asked not to be identified.

Pentagon officials says if the first attempt to hit the satellite fails, there may be time for a second attempt, but that would only come after an assessment that would be hours or even days after the first attempt.

Because the 5,000-pound satellite malfunctioned immediately after launch in December 2006, it has a full tank of fuel. It would likely survive re-entry and disperse potentially deadly fumes over an area the size of two football fields, officials have said.

The Navy plans to fire at the satellite as it enters Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of about 150 miles.

Officials want the missile to hit the edge of the atmosphere to ensure debris re-enters and burns up quickly.

The Missile Defense Agency estimated the cost of a sea-based attempted intercept at $40 million to $60 million.

Without any intervention, Pentagon officials have said they believe the satellite would come down on its own in early March.

The option of striking the satellite with a missile launched from an Aegis cruiser was decided upon by President Bush after consultation with several government and military officials and aerospace experts, said Deputy National Security Adviser James Jeffrey.

"If we miss, nothing changes," said NASA administrator Michael Griffin. "If we shoot and barely touch it, the satellite is just barely in orbit" and would still burn up somewhat in the atmosphere, he said.

"If we shoot and get a direct hit, that's a clean kill and we're in good shape," he added. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

CNN Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.

 

Navy waits for satellite kill shot
Feb. 20, 2008

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  • NEW: Weather conditions may delay missile shot at satellite, official says
     
  • NEW: Navy has 10-second window each day to take shot, official says
     
  • Navy plans to fire a missile into space from near Hawaii
     
  • Remote chance satellite would otherwise spew toxic gas in populated area
  • WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Navy gunners in the Pacific were watching the sea and sky Wednesday, waiting for perfect conditions to take a kill shot on an errant satellite 150 miles above them.
     

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    A Delta II rocket lifts off, carrying a reconnaissance satellite that failed hours later.

    They have just a 10-second window to fire, a Pentagon official said, and may not be able to take their shot on their first opportunity at 10:30 p.m. ET Wednesday.

    "It's not enough to say 'no,' but we're watching the weather," the official told reporters at the Pentagon. "It's on the margin."

    The cruiser USS Lake Erie will get one 10-second window each of the next nine or 10 days to fire an interceptor missile that will destroy the faltering spy satellite before it can tumble to Earth and -- possibly -- release a cloud of toxic gas.

    The Pentagon said the window of opportunity to strike the 5,000-pound satellite opened Wednesday, when the space shuttle Atlantis landed in Florida. The Pentagon wanted to be sure the shuttle would not be struck by any debris from a destroyed satellite.

    But the official said conditions have to be perfect, and that was not the case Wednesday with swells in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii running slightly higher than Navy would like. Video Watch how Navy plans to shoot down satellite »

    CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said six- to eight-foot swells were reported in the area through Wednesday night and were not expected to come down until Friday or Saturday.

    The United States plans to spend up to $60 million to try to destroy the satellite even though there is only a remote possibility the satellite could fall to Earth, survive re-entry and spew toxic gas in a populated area, said James Jeffrey, deputy national security adviser.

    "The regret factor of not acting clearly outweighed the regret factor of acting," he said. Video Watch how the falling satellite could spark fears »

    The Chinese military destroyed an aging weather satellite last year, prompting questions about whether the United States is merely flexing its muscle to show an economic and military rival that it can destroy satellites, too. Jeffrey denied that when a reporter asked him about it this week.

    "This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings," he said.

    In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80,000 feet. That adds to evidence that the U.S. is acting Wednesday strictly to guard against the prospect of a potential disaster, said Gen. James Cartwright, vice-chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    Without intervention, officials say, the satellite would fall to Earth on its own in early March. However, since it malfunctioned immediately after it was launched in December 2006, it has a full tank -- about 1,000 pounds -- of frozen, toxic hydrazine propellant.

    Authorities said the fuel tank likely would survive re-entry and could disperse harmful or even potentially deadly fumes over an area the size of two football fields. Hydrazine is similar to chlorine or ammonia in that it affects the lungs and breathing tissue.

    The goal is to strike the satellite in low orbit, just before it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, at an altitude of about 150 miles. The missile will not carry a warhead. The idea is to blast the satellite apart on impact so that the hydrazine tank explodes. Video Watch Pentagon spokesman Jeff Morrell describe the launch window »

    The smaller debris would be more likely to burn up in the atmosphere. Most of the debris would re-enter the atmosphere within hours of impact, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has said.

    The military has timed its shoot-down attempt so that resulting debris will tumble into the atmosphere and not interfere with other satellites, said Christina Rocca, a U.S. diplomat and expert on disarmament. Her comments were included in an online United Nations report on this month's Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.

    The military also has timed its efforts to minimize the chances that debris will hit populated areas. But the United States is "prepared to offer assistance to governments to mitigate the consequences of any satellite debris impacts on their territory," according to a report of Rocca's remarks on the Web site of the Geneva office of the U.N.

    If the satellite is not destroyed, she said, it is expected to make an "uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere" on or about March 6.

    President Bush made the decision to shoot the satellite down after consulting with several government and military officials and aerospace experts, Jeffrey said earlier in February.

    One Pentagon official said that since early January, a Navy team including 200 industry experts and scientists has been working furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite. Among the team's challenges was modifying the sensors designed to detect the heat from an incoming warhead, as the satellite will be much cooler.

    The Lake Erie, an Aegis-equipped cruiser, will be joined in the Pacific by two destroyers, the USS Decatur and the USS Russell. See dangers and possible solutions to satellite problem »

    The Lake Erie will fire the missile, while the Decatur will feed the trajectory to the Erie. The Russell will serve as the Decatur's backup, authorities have said.

    The satellite and the missile will be heading toward each other at about 22,000 mph. The satellite is about the size of a school bus, authorities have said; the missile will be aimed at its fuel tank, which is about 3 or 4 feet long.

    The missile would release a "kinetic kill vehicle," enabling it to "see" the satellite and adjust its course toward it if necessary, officials have said.

    In January 2007, China used a land-based missile to destroy a 2,200-pound satellite that was orbiting 528 miles above the Earth. The impact left more than 100,000 pieces of debris orbiting the planet, NASA estimated -- 2,600 of them more than 4 inches across. The U.S. agency called the breakup of the Fengyun-C satellite the worst in history.

    China, however, is among a host of countries who are monitoring the U.S. satellite kill shot. It is "highly concerned" and has expressed its reservations to the United States, according to a report in the state-run Xinhua news agency. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

    CNN's Jamie McIntyre and Miles O'Brien contributed to this report.

 

Few Will See Satellite Shootdown

A shootdown of a dying spy satellite would create a show in the heavens — a U.S. rocket launch and flying space debris.

Unfortunately, few earthlings will be able to see it.

The easiest thing for some people around the world to spot would be the bus-sized satellite while it's still intact, still in orbit and before any missile hit it. Hawaiians will have the best chance, though still slim, of seeing the missile launch from a Navy ship in the Pacific Ocean. And seeing any debris is iffy for everyone.

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THE SATELLITE

"It appears to be a dot of light in the sky, moving ... like a plane going over, but silent and without flashing," said Jonathan McDowell of Jonathan's Space Report and Harvard Center for Astrophysics.

It can be viewed in the early evening when it's dark and the satellite is high enough in the sky that its metal is reflecting sunlight. Until the weekend, the satellite — called USA 193 — is supposed to pass over some U.S., Canadian and western European cities, moving generally from southwest to northeast. McDowell suggests times and locations might be found at http://www.heavens-above.com., though the site has been overwhelmed in recent days.

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THE SHOOTDOWN

Chances of seeing the missile launch are slim "unless you're underneath it on the ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean," said Riki Ellison, president of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, who has been on ships to witness past missile defense tests.

The military wants to attempt the shootdown during the day. There is some chance those in western Hawaii "might be lucky and see the streak of the missile going up in the sky in the distance," said McDowell, adding it will be very difficult to see against the daytime sky.

Ditto for the flash from the collision, if a missile actually hits its mark.

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THE DEBRIS

If the satellite is pulverized into tiny pieces, it won't leave much to see. Chances are a little better if big chunks remain that "could stay in orbit for a couple of weeks," McDowell said.

"Overall, the average person won't be able to see much of anything," he said.

 

Military sources: Dying spy satellite hit by missile

2-20-08 -

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An inoperable U.S. spy satellite orbiting about 150 miles above Earth was struck Wednesday by a missile fired from a U.S. Navy cruiser, military sources told CNN.

The Pentagon said the window of opportunity to strike the 5,000-pound satellite opened Wednesday, when the space shuttle Atlantis landed in Florida. The Pentagon wanted to be sure the shuttle would not be struck by any debris from a destroyed satellite.

But earlier the official said conditions had to be perfect, and that was not the case Wednesday with swells in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii running slightly higher than Navy would like. Video Watch how Navy plans to shoot down satellite »

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said six- to eight-foot swells were reported in the area through Wednesday night and were not expected to come down until Friday or Saturday.

The United States planned to spend up to $60 million trying to destroy the satellite even though there was only a remote possibility the satellite could fall to Earth, survive re-entry and spew toxic gas in a populated area, said James Jeffrey, deputy national security adviser.

"The regret factor of not acting clearly outweighed the regret factor of acting," he said.

The Chinese military destroyed an aging weather satellite last year, prompting questions about whether the United States is merely flexing its muscle to show an economic and military rival that it can destroy satellites, too. Jeffrey denied that when a reporter asked him about it this week.

"This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings," he said.

In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80,000 feet. That adds to evidence that the U.S. is acting Wednesday strictly to guard against the prospect of a potential disaster, said Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Without intervention, officials say, the satellite would have fallen to Earth on its own in early March. However, since it malfunctioned immediately after it was launched in December 2006, it has a full tank -- about 1,000 pounds -- of frozen, toxic hydrazine propellant.

Authorities said the fuel tank probably would have survived re-entry and could have dispersed harmful or even potentially deadly fumes over an area the size of two football fields. Hydrazine is similar to chlorine or ammonia in that it affects the lungs and breathing tissue.

The goal was to strike the satellite in low orbit, just before it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, at an altitude of about 150 miles. The missile didn't carry a warhead. The idea was to blast the satellite apart on impact so that the hydrazine tank explodes. Video Watch Pentagon spokesman Jeff Morrell describe the launch window »

The smaller debris would be more likely to burn up in the atmosphere. Most of the debris would re-enter the atmosphere within hours of impact, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has said.

The military timed its shoot-down attempt so that resulting debris would tumble into the atmosphere and not interfere with other satellites, said Christina Rocca, a U.S. diplomat and expert on disarmament. Her comments were included in an online United Nations report on this month's Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.

The military also timed its efforts to minimize the chances that debris would hit populated areas. But the United States is "prepared to offer assistance to governments to mitigate the consequences of any satellite debris impacts on their territory," according to a report of Rocca's remarks on the Web site of the Geneva office of the U.N.

If the satellite is not destroyed, she said, it's expected to make an "uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere" on or about March 6.

President Bush made the decision to shoot the satellite down after consulting with several government and military officials and aerospace experts, Jeffrey said earlier in February.

One Pentagon official said that since early January, a Navy team including 200 industry experts and scientists had worked furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite. Among the team's challenges was modifying the sensors designed to detect the heat from an incoming warhead, as the satellite will be much cooler.

The Lake Erie, an Aegis-equipped cruiser, was expected to be joined in the Pacific by two destroyers, the USS Decatur and the USS Russell. See dangers and possible solutions to satellite problem »

The Lake Erie was slated to fire the missile, while the Decatur fed the trajectory to the Erie. The Russell was to serve as the Decatur's backup, authorities said.

The satellite and the missile were expected to head toward each other at about 22,000 mph. The satellite was about the size of a school bus, authorities said; the missile was to be aimed at its fuel tank, which is about 3 or 4 feet long.

Authorities said earlier that the missile would release a "kinetic kill vehicle," enabling it to "see" the satellite and adjust its course toward it if necessary, officials have said.

In January 2007, China used a land-based missile to destroy a 2,200-pound satellite that was orbiting 528 miles above the Earth. The impact left more than 100,000 pieces of debris orbiting the planet, NASA estimated -- 2,600 of them more than 4 inches across. The U.S. agency called the breakup of the Fengyun-C satellite the worst in history.

China, however, is among a host of countries who are monitoring the U.S. satellite kill shot. It is "highly concerned" and has expressed its reservations to the United States, according to a report in the state-run Xinhua news agency. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Jamie McIntyre and Miles O'Brien contributed to this report.

 

 

Pentagon: Missile Scored Direct Hit on Satellite

A handout image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the USS Lake Erie launching a Standard Missile-3 at a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph over the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 20, 2008. U.S. Navy/Getty Images

NPR.org, February 21, 2008 · The U.S. Navy has successfully intercepted a defunct spy satellite using a surface-to-air missile — a first-ever such demonstration by an American warship. Debris from the shattered satellite was expected to burn up during re-entry.

The White House ordered that the satellite, which was slowly falling out of orbit, be destroyed to eliminate concerns that its onboard fuel could pose a toxic hazard if it hit a populated area.

"The mission was a success … the missile … intercepted the decaying satellite," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters.

The interceptor missile was launched from the Navy cruiser USS Lake Erie off Hawaii at 10:30 p.m. EST. The USS Lake Erie is an Aegis guided-missile cruiser. Two other ships, USS Decatur and USS Russell, were also part of the task force.

Morrell said Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave the go-ahead several hours prior to launch.

Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an expert on military space technologies, said that officials have a "high degree of confidence" that the missile hit as intended, adding that there was an estimated 80 percent to 90 percent chance that it struck the most important target on the satellite — its fuel tank, containing 1,000 pounds of toxic hydrazine.

The interception came nearly one year after the United States sharply criticized China for carrying out a similar test mission. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said his nation was "closely monitoring any damage that this move by America might cause to safety in outer space and to other countries."

He called on Washington to "strictly abide by its international obligations and quickly provide any information or data that would help other countries to take protective measures."

The classified spy satellite malfunctioned soon after reaching orbit in December 2006. It was due to fall to Earth sometime this week.

 

US missile reduces toxic satellite to ball-sized chunks

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The missile that struck a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying toxic fuel reduced it to football-sized chunks, and the Pentagon said it had a "high degree of confidence" its fuel tank was destroyed, officials said Thursday.

General James Cartwright told reporters it would be 24-48 hours before a full confirmation would be available on the fuel tank.

The Defense Department has a "high degree of confidence we hit the tank" but "we can't say for sure," at this time, he said.

A senior Pentagon official earlier had said the missile appeared to have struck the fuel tank containing hydrazine, which could have leaked toxic gas over a wide area if it had survived re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

"The intent here was to preserve human life ... it was the hydrazine we were after," Cartwright, who is vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said rejecting Moscow's suggestion it was an anti-missile test.

"This is a modified system, this isn't a missile defense system," he said.

"The missile impacted the satellite in the area of the tank, we have a cloud that appears to be hydrazine," he said. "It would have been irresponsible for us not to try to remove this risk, that's what moved us."

So far the United States has not seen debris touch the Earth's surface he added.

 

Pacific on alert for destroyed satellite remains

2-21-08

Pacific nations including Australia are on alert as they wait for the remains of a US spy satellite to fall to earth.

The Pentagon says the satellite, equipped with a toxic hydrazine fuel tank, was hit by a missile launched from a US Navy ship this afternoon.

Weather bureaus in the region have been warned that the satellite is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry and land in the Pacific region by about March 6.

The director of the Fiji Meteorological Service, Rajendra Prasad, says countries in the region must prepare for the possible consequences resulting from the satellite's re-entry.

He says it is unlikely the satellite will hit a populated area, but Pacific nations must be alert.

 

Satellite Debris Deemed Unhazardous

WASHINGTON (AP) — Debris from an obliterated U.S. spy satellite is being tracked over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans but appears to be too small to cause damage on Earth, a senior military officer said Thursday, just hours after a Navy missile scored a direct hit on the failing spacecraft.

Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an expert on military space technologies, told a Pentagon news conference that officials have a "high degree of confidence" that the missile launched from a Navy cruiser Wednesday night hit exactly where intended.

It was an unprecedented mission for the Navy, so extraordinary that the final go-ahead to launch the missile Wednesday was reserved for Defense Secretary Robert Gates rather than a military commander.

Cartwright estimated there was an 80 percent to 90 percent chance that the missile struck the most important target on the satellite — its fuel tank, containing 1,000 pounds of hydrazine, which Pentagon officials say could have posed a health hazard to humans if it had landed in a populated area.

Alluding to a video clip of the missile smashing into the satellite, which he showed at the news conference, Cartwright said, "We have a fireball, and given that there's no fuel (on the tip of the missile), that would indicate that that's a hydrazine fire."

The video showed the three-stage SM-3 missile launching from the USS Lake Erie at 10:26 p.m. EST, northwest of Hawaii, and of the missile's small "kill vehicle" — a non-explosive device at the tip — maneuvering into the path of the satellite and colliding spectacularly.

He said the satellite and the kill vehicle collided at a combined speed of 22,000 mph about 130 miles above Earth's surface, and that the collision was confirmed at a space operations center at 10:50 p.m. EST.

Asked about the satisfaction felt among those in the military who had organized the shootdown on short notice by modifying missile software and other components, Cartwright smiled widely.

"Yes, this was uncharted territory. The technical degree of difficulty was significant here," Cartwright said. "You can imagine that at the point of intercept there were a few cheers that went up."

He cautioned, however, that more technical analysis was required to determine for certain what debris was created and where it might go. The satellite was described as the size of a school bus and weighed about 5,000 pounds.

Unlike most spacecraft that fall out of orbit and re-enter the atmosphere, this satellite had an almost full fuel tank because it lost power and became uncontrollable shortly after it reached its initial orbit in December 2006. Cartwright said the hydrazine alone was justification for undertaking the unprecedented effort to use a Navy missile interceptor to attempt to destroy the satellite in orbit.

Cartwright said experts were still watching the debris fields and he could not yet rule out that hazardous material would fall to Earth. But he said that as of Thursday morning, debris had only been seen in the atmosphere — and none had been detected surviving re-entry. He indicated that debris appeared unlikely to pose a problem.

"Thus far we've seen nothing larger than a football," he said, referring to debris in the atmosphere spotted by radars and other sensors.

The military concluded that the missile had successfully shattered the satellite because trackers detected a fireball. Cartwright said it was unlikely that the fireball could have been caused by anything other than the hydrazine in the tank.

And Cartwright cited two other sources of information that indicate the fuel tank was hit: the appearance of a vapor cloud and the results of spectral analysis, or the study of light emissions, from devices aboard two aircraft that operate from the Pacific test range associated with the Pentagon's missile defense testing.

Debris from the satellite has started re-entry and will continue through Thursday and into Friday, Cartwright said.

The size of the debris is smaller than the Pentagon had forecast and most of the satellite's intelligence value was likely destroyed, Cartwright said. Analysts had said one of the reasons for the shootdown was that officials worried that without it, larger chunks of the satellite could fall and be recovered, opening the possibility of secret technology falling into the hands of the Chinese or others.

Gates arrived in Hawaii less than two hours before the missile was launched. His press secretary, Geoff Morrell, said Gates had a conference call during his flight with Cartwright and Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of Strategic Command. They told him that "the conditions were ripe for an attempt, and that is when the secretary gave the go-ahead to take the shot, and wished them good luck," Morrell said.

At 10:35 p.m. EST, Gates spoke to both generals again and "was informed that the mission was a success, that the missile had intercepted the decaying satellite, and the secretary was obviously very pleased to learn that," said Morrell.

The elaborate intercept may trigger worries from some international leaders, who could see it as a thinly disguised attempt to test an anti-satellite weapon — one that could take out other nations' orbiting communications and spy spacecraft.

Within hours of the reported success, China said it was on the alert for possible harmful fallout from the shootdown and urged Washington to promptly release data on the action.

"China is continuously following closely the possible harm caused by the U.S. action to outer space security and relevant countries," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at news conference in Beijing. "China requests the U.S. to fulfill its international obligations in real earnest and provide to the international community necessary information and relevant data in a timely and prompt way so that relevant countries can take precautions."

AP writer Pauline Jelinek contributed to this report from Washington.

 


Len Horowitz Warns About
Satellite Shootdown Dangers
Satellite Explosion Could Cause
Chemical And Hydrosonic Toxicity

Dr. Len Horowitz
2-17-2008
 
HILO HI -- Dr. Len Horowitz, an internationally known public health expert and consumer protection activist, will discuss the Bush administration's plan to explode the USA 193 spy satellite by Navy missile attack this week. He warns of likely toxicity to humanity administered chemically and vibrationally.
 
"The experimental plan to explode USA 193 as it reenters the atmosphere seems tremendously risky to me since we know what to expect from, and how to best manage, terrestrial fuel spills, but not hydrazine space experiments. Since it is unreasonable to conduct such an unprecedented experiment risking the public's health, we must consider the possibility that this is likely a covert operation. One that will clearly alter the toxicity and resonance frequencies of our atmosphere, even resonate throughout space. To me, this is grossly negligent, outrageously risky, and potentially deadly to people everywhere."
 
Dr. Horowitz assertively argues vaccinations accumulating mercury in people's neurology, especially children's brains, far exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency's toxic dosage limits, have been scientifically linked to skyrocketing rates of autism. He believes the Navy missile experiment may likewise neurologically intoxicate populations worldwide at a time when many people are awakening to untrustworthy military maneuvers. Increasingly, people are awakening to, and becoming concerned about, the global depopulation agenda and the use of military operations and civilian intoxications to effect population reduction.
 
"At this time we see chemtrails poisoning the air we breathe, and man-made, laboratory created germs producing emerging diseases such as Morgellons," Dr. Horowitz heralds. "At the same time we are witnessing an unprecedented Spiritual Renaissance pitting good against evil in our efforts to awaken civilization to a better way of living and co-existing with nature and each other. This runs contrary to geopolitical controllers and military prostitutes promoting this Navy experiment."
 
The Navy has always been at the forefront of covert operations, population control, and advancing attacks on civilian populations. Dr. Horowitz detailed these connections in Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare," one of sixteen books he has authored since 1978.
 
Many government watchdogs claim global depopulation, the targeted reduction of the world's population by two-thirds, is secretly and effectively advancing using petrochemical-pharmaceutical toxicity. The controllers of the military-medical-petrochemical-pharmaceutical cartel fear the permacultural revolution featuring free-energy systems, decentralized community banking, and sustainability with the protection of earth's resources versus unbridled consumption. Decision makers in the Bush administration, their financiers and global bankers, care more about profits than people. "They direct the ongoing biocide, global genocide, and war against nature and people," Dr. Horowitz explains.
 
Chemically poisoning the atmosphere for disease induction and population reduction is in accordance with officially published population control objectives, Dr. Horowitz posits. This agenda was established by an oligarchy of global industrialists who now feel threatened their grip on enslaving systems is being eroded by mass Internet communications and a revolution/evolution of human consciousness. Mechanisms such as fiat currency banking, free energy research restriction, fraudulent taxation, and medical-pharmaceutical cult indoctrination, are increasingly coming under attack. Fearing termination of their restrictive control, population managers are advancing new ways of killing people covertly and most profitably. This spy satellite experiment, said to be the best way to deal with a Central Intelligence Agency disaster, Dr. Horowitz, concludes, is "a wolf in sheep's clothing."
 
James Oberg, who spent 22 years at NASA's Johnson Space Center as a Mission Control operator and an orbital designer, wrote for MSNBC:
 
"The force of a missile hitting an orbiting object is much more violent than the force of a bullet striking a target, or even an anti-aircraft missile hitting an airplane. In the space case, the tremendous speed of the impact carries so much kinetic energy that both vehicles literally explode due to the hypersonic shock waves sweeping through their structures.
 
"If the missile strike leads to such a disintegration, sharp observers should be able to spot the ice fragments from the fuel tank. As the fragments evaporate in direct sunlight, they could create mini-comets visible from Earth's surface, lasting for hours before dispersing."
 
Dr. Horowitz concludes the hypersonic shock waves noted by Dr. Osberg are expected to radiate throughout earth's atmosphere as well as space, since both are well hydrated according to NASA's determinations eight years ago.
 
In 2000, scientists working for the government identified frozen water in crystalline and gaseous forms throughout space. Much like a stone thrown at the center of a pond generates circular water waves transmitted to the farthest shores, this hydrosonic space explosion could conceivably resonate hydrazine toxicity throughout earth's atmosphere as well as space.
 
Dr. Horowitz believes toxicity could be carried hydrosonically much like a homeopathic carries potent resonance frequencies of specific substances through water. People who use homeopathics clearly benefit. But the world's population about to receive hydrosonically-transmitted hydrazine vibrations from the missile hitting the satellite are likely to be energetically and spiritually intoxicated.
 
Rev. Roxanne Hampton will be interviewing Dr. Horowitz, sound researcher and talk show host Don Nicoloff, and other special guests on Sunday night at 9PM Pacific Time on <http://www.BBSRadio.com>http://www.BBSRadio.com. The show, produced by Rev. Hampton, is called "Mission Possible." It will be archived for later listening and circulating.
 
 
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DR. RICHARD BOYLAN: THERE'S AN ASTRONAUT ON THAT FALLING SATELLITE

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Date:
Sunday, 17 February 2008, 10:09 a.m.

The $60 Million Dollar Hit Job: Government To Use A Guided Missile To Kill Secret Astronaut

February16, 2008

Friends,

On Valentine’s Day, (Thursday, Feb. 15), the wire services reported that James Jeffries, the Deputy National Security Adviser, said that President Bush had ordered a secret spy satellite in a decaying orbit to be shot down because it contains toxic fuel, and he was "concerned about human life".

Apparently Bush’s "concern about human life" does not extend to hybrid Humans. Because what the government did not reveal is that the bus-size satellite has an astronaut aboard. This astronaut is a Human-Star Being hybrid, cloned by the Cabal, and whose job was to operate the advanced technology aboard the satellite, technology stolen and back-engineered from downed extraterrestrial spacecraft. The Cabal infiltrators in the National Reconnaissance Office do not want any portion of their satellite to reach Earth because of the chance that someone might notice the unworldly technology and unconventional crewman it carries; and to ask where those came from.

And the Cabal have another reason, too. This Star Wars Lite exercise is a public conditioning for a later full-scale Star Wars to repel a fake "alien invasion’ staged by secret U.S. antigravity craft, and planned for later this year.

The details follow.

Sometime in the next two weeks, the U.S. Navy Aegis guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie will steam out of Pearl Harbor, HI accompanied by two destroyers and head for the North Pacific. Aboard will be three specially-modified Standard Missile-3 ICBMs. Their mission: to destroy a bus-size super-secret satellite which had been secretly launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in December, 2006. What the sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie will not be told is that the missile they fire will kill an astronaut aboard the secret satellite.

The government’s press release is suspicious from the start. The stated reason for not letting satellite debris fall to Earth is supposedly because a canister of hydrazine fuel aboard would survive atmospheric re-entry and break apart upon hitting the ground, thus spreading toxic fumes in a 600-foot circle. Hydrazine is both volatile and highly flammable. But anyone who has watched the footage of the Shuttle Columbia break apart in atmospheric re-entry would have no doubt that a canister filled with explosive fuel would never make it through the fiery re-entry temperatures all the way to the ground. So a relatively small cloud of rocket propellant isn’t the real reason for this $60 million Star Wars missile shoot. Keeping secret the stolen extraterrestrial technology and illegally-cloned astronaut is.

For some years the Cabal have been producing human clones using various mixtures of Human and extraterrestrial genes. These clones have been produced in secret underground Cabal factories in Iceland, Antarctica and elsewhere. The clones have been produced for various purposes. In the case of the astronaut aboard this secret spy satellite, his genetic composition is 2% Human genes and 98% Star Being genes. His job: to operate the exotic technology aboard the satellite, technology so exotic that it incorporates semi-alive artificial intelligence, and which is controlled by telepathic interface with the hybrid astronaut.

Some might think that 2% Human is not much in the overall genetic mix. But reflect that the genome of a chimpanzee and the Human genome differ by only 2%.

The Cabal spliced the 2% Human genes into strategic locations on the Star Being genome in order to facilitate the hybrid’s being under the control of the Cabal technicians, who brainwashed him since he was grown to adult size and activated The Cabal also mentally programmed him that his work aboard the NRO satellite, activating the Earth deep-penetrating imaging equipment, was "in the vital national security interest". Actually it is part of the Cabal’s hostile search for Star Visitors who may have retreated underground from Cabal death squads hunting them.

The hybrid-Human astronaut, (let’s call him Joe), lives and sleeps aboard the satellite. With his special hybrid make-up, Joe requires very little to eat, so there has been no problem storing enough long-term food supplies aboard for him.

The U.S. government could have sent up a Shuttle to rescue Joe from the satellite. They knew last year that its orbit would not last beyond the beginning of this March. But they did not. The Cabal consider secret astronauts expendable.

Besides, they have a second, sinister purpose with this coming missile kill. The great global publicity the Administration have given this missile kill of a secret satellite is no accident. For it is Phase Two of the three-phase Grand Plan they have, a plan that Dr. Wernher Von Braun warned about decades ago: three different manufactured external threats produced to rally the people around an increasingly power-grabbing and fascistic New World Order government.

Phase One was the Cold War, (during which supposed enemies secretly cooperated.)

Phase Two was a Threatening Object From Space. When Zecharia Sitchin’s peddling of Sumerian legends about a supposed incoming planet Niburu/Marduk didn’t catch traction, the Cabal fell back on this "falling satellite" ploy.

Phase Three is a faked "alien invasion" to be staged later this year in the skies overhead by Cabal secret antigravity craft, and projected holographic "alien ships". The Cabal figure this globalized "threat" will galvanize the people into acquiescing to Global Martial Law.

What the Cabal didn’t count on is the numbers of lightworker and Star Seed Good Guys/Gals within governments, militaries, intelligence agencies, and other organizations who are "mad as hell and aren’t going to take it any more;" it being Cabal sneaky power grabs, and are putting up resistance.

So, know you know the rest of the story.

(The above report is based on information disclosed to me by Star Nations. You didn’t really expect that the Bush-Cheney White House would tell you the truth,did you? Cheney’s motto is: "You can’t handle the truth." But I think you can. So, now you have it.)

in the light,

Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
Richard Boylan, Ph.D., LLC, Councillor of/for Earth
President, Star Kids Project, Ltd
Email: drboylan@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.drboylan.com
Diamond Springs
, California 95619, USA

CONVENIENTLY

Subject: Breaking News:   stranded astronaut "Joe" has been rescued!
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:41:36 +0000
 
To: UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com; DrRichBoylanReports@yahoogroups.com;
Subject: [DrRichBoylanReports] Breaking News: stranded astronaut "Joe" has been rescued!
 
 Friends,
 
 I bring you great joyful news, just received.

Stranded astronaut "Joe" has been rescued by the secret NASA rescue team  dispatched from Johnson Space Center, White Sands by the Good Guys/Gals in the Administration.
 
At 3:23 pm, PST, the White Hats within the government sent a message, (intercepted by my Star Being informant, "Oscar".) The White Hats message read:

"Precious Cargo has been retrieved."
 
 This means Joe has been successfully retrieved from the stricken satellite  and placed board the NASA Retrieval Vehicle for transport back to the ground.  There he will associate with the Friendlies within government, safe from Cabal clutches.
 
 Informant Oscar also said (at 3:40 pm, PST) that  the Cabal sent a message:

"Our Bobbies have some serious explaining to do." Oscar said he believes this is a reference to the inability of the Cabal European forces to stop the White Hats from getting to Joe.
 
 Score:   Human-Star Nations joint effort: 1

           Cabal:  0
 
 Time to break out the sparkling bubbly beverage! Well done, all the way around!
 
          in the light,
 
          Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
 

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