launch notification.... hmmmm

El Corazon

I was thumbing through the launch notifications (public info) and noticed something I am sure I overlooked before, but for some reason it stood out today....

New Launch: 2007 November 14, 2206 UTC

Site: Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana

Launcher: Ariane 5

International Designator(s): 2007-056A, 2007-056B

SSC Name Owner

32293 SKYNET 5B UK
32294 STAR ONE C1 BRAZ

Hey, you folks in the UK!! Didn't you SEE that movie????!!! Come on... I thought EVERYONE had! ;P

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Pete OHanlon · New Launch: 2007 November 14, 2206 UTC

We did, but it will be a typical European affair with all of the robots fighting among themselves.

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Matthew Faithfull · New Launch: 2007 November 14, 2206 UTC

Yeah I commented on the irony of this when I read it was about to be launched. It's even a military comms system :laugh: Either the result of geeks with a sense of humour run amok or some jarhead with absolutely no clue. Either way :laugh:

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martin_hughes · New Launch: 2007 November 14, 2206 UTC

I love the way Europe's spaceport is about as far from Europe as you can get.

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El Corazon

Matthew Faithfull wrote:

Either the result of geeks with a sense of humour run amok or some jarhead with absolutely no clue. Either way

actually, the satellite series predates the movie. :) but it just looked too good to pass up posting...

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Dan Neely

Too bad the soviets didn't do the same thing. The highly inclined orbit the ISS is in so that they can reach it significantly reduces the amount of mass that any booster can transfer to it, and leaves it useless as a construction/staging point for missions beyond Near Earth orbit.

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Dalek Dave

dan neely wrote:

Too bad the soviets didn't do the same thing

The Soviets were never involved with the ISS! However the Russians put a lot of money and launch technology in, even though THEIR launch facility isn't in Russia either!

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Gary Wheeler · New Launch: 2007 November 14, 2206 UTC

Even worse, apparently nobody read the original short story by Harlan Ellison that started it all: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream[^].

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Dan Neely

And if the soviets had done what the euros did, instead of putting in in their borders of the time, and bought a 3rd world country along the equator it wouldn't've been necessary to incline the orbit fifty some odd degrees so that the Russians could reach it. We could've parked it in an equatorial orbit which'd be optimal for leaving near earth earth space, and kept the shuttles max load roughly the same. Or if we put in in 23(?) degree orbit we could've maximized the shuttles cargo capacity. Either of those orbits would potentially make things much easier for the euros to send stuff using their own hardware instead of ours. Maybe Japan as well, I'm not sure where their launch site is off the top of my head.

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Manuel F Hernandez · New Launch: 2007 November 14, 2206 UTC

Please help the clueless. What is the meaning of all this?

El Corazon

Manuel F. Hernandez wrote:

Please help the clueless. What is the meaning of all this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28fictional%29[^] the movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28satellites%29[^]The UK military satellite network.

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