Secret payload launched on largest West Coast rocket

[MNeagle]

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110121/i/r2854770917.jpg?x=213&y=266&xc=1&yc=1&wc=360&hc=450&q=85&sig=DEU0gfZJ1XadMD444jyifA--
Reuters – A Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle launches from Space Launch Complex-6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, …

– Thu Jan 20, 11:05 pm ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The largest rocket ever launched from the U.S. West Coast blasted off on Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying a top secret satellite into orbit, military officials said.

The Delta IV Heavy rocket stood 23 stories tall, and its engines produced 2 million pounds of thrust, according to the 30th Space Wing of the U.S. Air Force.

Blasting off at 1:10 p.m. Pacific time from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg in California, the rocket carried a payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, military officials said. The nature of the payload was secret.

But the Los Angeles Times cited analysts who said it was a spy satellite, capable of snapping pictures detailed enough to distinguish the model of a car hundreds of miles below.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110121/sc_nm/us_rocket_launch

[mike88]

I feel so much safer now. Oh, and while you are in DC congress, can anything be done about that pesky budget deficit,imminant infrastructure failure in the nation's water and electric grids, the porous mexican border, and the rampant looting of the treasury by connected banking interests? New spy gear is real sexy and all, but how about doing your jobs for us?

[Awoke]

I feel so much safer now.

Sorry to break it to you, but it's not about "keeping you safe".

[Buddha]

I feel so much safer now.

Sorry to break it to you, but it's not about "keeping you safe".


He was using :sarc:

[Buddha]

Able to see the make of a car? I thought that we already had shit like that up there. I guess one more couldn't hurt though. We are already screwed anyway, so what the heck?

No wonder silver got hit, they built a 23 story silver rocket and launched it, the assholes

[Awoke]

I knew he was being sarcastic, but I still wanted to make the point.

[VX1]

Clearly, just a 737 contrail... ::)

[Cobalt]

Nothing that concerns you folks, we are just looking out for your best interest.

Move along out of the shadows and say cheese

[SLV^GLD]

This posted article is suspiciously similar to this one (http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/secret-u-s-spy-satellite-launches-into-orbit-on-huge-rocket/) posted by myself on 11/21/2010.

[Book]

http://c1.planetsave.com/files/2008/07/ant-farm.jpg

We are living in their Ant Farm now.

[Mouse]

They forgot to mention "able to distinguish the model of car parked in your garage"

[Hillbilly]

I knew we did not need the space shuttle.