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re: Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane returns to Earth
Posted on 10/28/19 at 1:47 pm to Homesick Tiger
Posted on 10/28/19 at 1:47 pm to Homesick Tiger
There was another picture in the article of just the plane. Looked rather big until I saw this other picture depicting a better size of the plane.
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Posted on 10/28/19 at 1:51 pm to Homesick Tiger
It's a space plane but it is launched into orbit on a rocket?
Disappointed.
Disappointed.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 1:53 pm to IT_Dawg
quote:This...
These things are powered with hydrazine.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:03 pm to Rooskie
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I wonder if there is always one orbiting the earth
This is the US government we probably have a dozen orbiting.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:06 pm to LetsgoGamecocks
Time Travel ?
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:09 pm to Homesick Tiger
Can you imagine being the guy in mission control whose job it is to watch this thing go in circles for 780 days? Has to be some kind of PsyOps test.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:15 pm to 9Fiddy
Going to be a fleet of satellite hunter killers
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:39 pm to 9Fiddy
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go in circles for 780 days
I have to bet there is enough equipment inside the payload bay to make those 780 days pretty interesting.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:41 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
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I used to say you can train a monkey to fly a fixed wing craft. Hell, now we don't even need the monkey!
Can't fly a helo in space w/o air. Just saying
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:42 pm to 9Fiddy
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Can you imagine being the guy in mission control whose job it is to watch this thing go in circles for 780 days?
Probably a retired race official from NASCAR.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 3:03 pm to Homesick Tiger
looks like the guys in the back are wearing full helmets
This post was edited on 10/28/19 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 10/28/19 at 3:06 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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If unmanned, what's with that ground crew in space suits?
I always thought it would’ve been funny if NASA had dressed the ground crew meeting returning astronauts as apes.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 3:14 pm to Homesick Tiger
Space Force habbenings.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 4:50 pm to Homesick Tiger
Another reason to keep the Dems out of the White House. They will give the technology to our enemies.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 4:53 pm to Gus007
Yes, in the form of an unsecured server in someone’s bath room
Posted on 10/28/19 at 5:19 pm to GumboPot
The only way gamma radiation would be emitted from the craft is there would have to be contamination from radioactive isotopes that would give off the radiation. Gamma radiation is like highly energized light and itself cannot contaminate anything. The gamma rays pass straight through the craft except where it is either absorbed or scattered which is the Compton Effect.
The craft can pick up radioactive nuclei floating through space that will give off gamma radiation. The source of gamma radiation is from the breakdown of unstable atom’s nucleus where as x-rays are generated when electrons are removed from their obital shells. The only difference in the two is their origins and that gamma rays can be much more energetic except that there are lower power Gamma rays and higher power X-rays that can share the same spot on the electromagnetic spectrum and have the same energy levels.
In order for alpha and beta particles to be present at all, a radioactive nuclei would have to be giving off these particles which each has mass unlike gamma rays. Beta and alpha particlulate ionizing radiation would have to be originating from contamination picked up that was floating in space as space dust.
The craft can pick up radioactive nuclei floating through space that will give off gamma radiation. The source of gamma radiation is from the breakdown of unstable atom’s nucleus where as x-rays are generated when electrons are removed from their obital shells. The only difference in the two is their origins and that gamma rays can be much more energetic except that there are lower power Gamma rays and higher power X-rays that can share the same spot on the electromagnetic spectrum and have the same energy levels.
In order for alpha and beta particles to be present at all, a radioactive nuclei would have to be giving off these particles which each has mass unlike gamma rays. Beta and alpha particlulate ionizing radiation would have to be originating from contamination picked up that was floating in space as space dust.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 6:18 pm to Wtxtiger
Are you a rocket scientist?
Posted on 10/28/19 at 6:29 pm to Rooskie
No stars in the picture. Pics are bullshite.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 6:55 pm to Rooskie
Radiation Safety Officer
Posted on 10/28/19 at 7:56 pm to Homesick Tiger
This is the first launch in 2010. I was in the Turks and Caicos Islands waiting to go to dinner. Photographer there took these photos. Good times. I knew it was a rocket. I was afraid we might have been launching nukes. :)
This post was edited on 10/28/19 at 7:57 pm
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