Space Force returns after secret mission… Hmmm what were they up to I wonder
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Launched May 2020. A lot of crap has gone down since May 2020.
Yep exactly, and what if it was all being tracked. “We have it all”
My thinking, just in time for Trump big announcement, Nov. 15.
Just wrapped up the mission after mid-terms was my first though.
I certainly hope they are doing more up there than just enjoying the view.
A war plane in space shooting down enemy com sats? Idk
So secret they wrote a story about it.
The mission is secret, not the existence of the vehicle.
Can't anyone keep a secret anymore?
Do they always dress in Andromeda Strain suits when something comes back down from orbit? You'd think that the heat from re-entry would sterilize the outside anyway.
The hypergolic fuel used in maneuvering thrusters is super toxic.
Thanks I learned something today!
I wonder if this has anything to do with military planes turning off transponders?
They have actually managed to keep the mission of this thing secret. No one knows exactly what the hell it’s doing up there for such extended periods.
Most obvious guess would be satellite hunter, second guess would be that it holds nuclear warheads and can be put in geosynchronous orbit over our enemies. No missile launch, no warning, the ability to just drop a warhead at any time with extremely short time to arrival.
Basically if this was to hold nukes, it would provide another level of redundancy in the mutual assured destruction paradigm. Even if you get the land based missiles, the plane dropped bombs, and the SSBN network, this guy would still be out there as a threat.
It’s gotta be one of those two things. Hunt and kill enemy satellites, or nuclear weapon delivery.
My first guess was sat hunting too.
"Corona offline" etc
...or a transfer of technology where no one can observe it
DEWs, Rods from God?
🤔
Maybe to capture the Black Knight?
Isn't that too big to capture with a "regular" spaceship?
I don't know how big it is.
There's probably a lot of complicated math to figure out the size.
Last night I had a realization. While we're busy chatting away here and going on about our lives, white hats are working overnight in overdrive mode this week. Alot of things happening behind the scenes that we may never know. Let's just say full panic mode is on, despite of what you see and hear on MSM.
Watching vote switches in real time for 2020 and 2022 for comparing “anomalies”?
"Some of OTV-6's payloads, according to Boeing and the Space Force, included:
A new service module to increase the number of payloads carried to orbit.
An experiment that harnessed solar power and transmitted it back to Earth in the form of microwave energy.
An opportunity for Air Force Academy cadets to design, build, and deploy a satellite before joining the Space Force.
And NASA investigations into how space exposure affects materials and seeds, the latter of which could impact how food is grown during long crewed missions."
Solar power harnessed and transmitted as Microwave energy sounds interesting. 🤔
3 years in a 30 ft plane? Sounds unbelievable. Nobody could do that. BS detector rising.
It’s not a plane, it goes into orbit. It’s a drone like satellite. A mini unmanned space shuttle. Likely uses liquid fuel and deplorable solar panels for energy. It’s launched up there on a rocket.
Just like a satellite, it wouldn’t need much energy once it’s in orbit. Just enough for repositioning. It has done progressively longer and longer missions. 2 years doesn’t seem illogical when you consider how long satellites last. Probably only limit to its mission time is how much times you move it around and deplete it’s fuel.
"Spaceplane" just means a reusable orbital vehicle that lands on a runway instead of coming back down on rockets like Space-X.
Thx
Some on here have their THINKING CAPS ON...Now, ask a question: WHY is this being broadcast NOW???? HMMM!!!
Looks like he’s wearing bass pro rain boots.
"It conducts experiments for government and industry partners with the ability to return them to Earth for evaluation."
Data collection?
Maybe
I’d say definitely Data collection
Pass the hopium pipe please.
UFO story would have been a little spicier.
Looks like the space shuttle.
Was that someone wearing a space suit?
I still think that spacecraft was for testing stasis/cold sleep in zero-G.
Most likely it's a spyplane which has high-end optics equipment to gather high-quality closeup images of military targets.