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We have lift off... just: Massive 235ft rocket carrying a secret spy satellite replacement blasts off from California coast
21st January 2011
It is the largest rocket ever launched from the U.S. West Coast.
The 235ft-tall Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle lifted off at 1.10pm local time yesterday with a classified U.S. government defence satellite on board.
Carrying cargo for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the booster rose into the sky over California's central coast and arced over the Pacific Ocean, a spectacle visible from 50 miles away….
…Its advanced resolution replacement is thought to be capable of seeing things on the ground in much finer detail than anything similar, although experts think it doubtful it will be able to read a car registration number.
'It will be used to produce high-resolution imagery of military and terrorist facilities around the world,' Jeffrey Richelson, an expert on U.S. space reconnaissance with the National Security Archive, told CNN….”
See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1349183/Delta-IV-Heavy-Launch-Vehicle-Largest-rocket-launched-U-S-West-Coast-lifts-off.html#ixzz1BhlEHYLh
Also, see link re: secret satelitte launched in Sept 2010:
http://era-of-peace.blogspot.com/2010/09/us-preparing-for-war.html
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