MNeagle
21st January 2011, 07:47 AM
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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
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