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some time in many threads, mostly those dealing with the infamous STS
75 Tether Incident and NASA's bungling loss of the satellite, I have
dropped hints about the OTHER tether satellite flown by the NAVY only a
month later. It was used for two years for laser experiments and as far
as I know it is still being spotted by amateurs, at least it was a few
years ago... It first flew in 1996 and I have an amateur video of
it passing over in the summer of 2004 with an Astrovid StellaCam
EX by apolloisgo (link later)
Now very few people even asked me about it and yet info on it was even available back then in public channels. Its one of my pet peeves, people saying they are searching for truth, but then even when you rub their noses into it, they still don't see it. I got the usual ribbing from certain skeptics, who didn't even bother to do a simple search... Well this satellite was flown and they shot lasers at it from two locations on Earth... I will just link my data on the lasers for now but will do a full thread later. Just need the tie in at the moment One was the Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS) Mount Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii run by the Air Force and this was the location they took photos of the satellite in orbit... Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS) The other location was the Starfire Optical Range in Kirtland AFB in New Mexico Starfire Optical Range in Kirtland AFB There is a similar facility in Russia that I knew about and managed to find on Google Earth It is called OKNO ELINT and on that project the Russian's said we had THREE... well I found Starfire and AEOS no problem, but the third eluded me though it was already on my list... HELSTAF High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility - White Sands, New Mexico The Russian site OKNO ELINT is here This was the Russian Article I used to track it down on GE OKNO ELINT Photo Gallery - Pegasus OKNO Sourcebook - 242 page PDF report So back to the tether... the purpose of firing the lasers at it was to test the concept of transmitting power to satellites in space via high powered lasers. The new optical systems compensate for atmospheric dispersal. My next thread will deal with that topic in detail... and a little later I will show you one more awesome NAVY project... The NAVY Tether is called TiPS Tether Physics and Survivability experiment. Some public links..
 Graphic of the US Naval Research Laboratory's TiPS tether satellite. Note that only a small part of the 4 km tether is shown deployed. This is the actual size of tether cable  But when I first found this a few years a go the info was on this URL (which now gives you a redirect) http://hyperspace.nrl.navy.mil/ Catchy URL to be sure, eh? I contacted the NAVY webmaster for permission to reprint the data as it was now declassified and received that permission Here are the links to the data and photos:
apolloisgo | March 06, 2007 TiPS was launched in 1996 by the US Naval Research Laboratory. A four-kilometre long tether connected two satellites named Ralph and Norton. The two satellites together had a mass just under 50 kilograms. Tethered satellites show promise in helping with orbital maneuvering, power generation and artificial gravity tests. This experiment was concluded in late 2006 when the tether presumably broke. I captured this video in the summer of 2004 with an Astrovid StellaCam EX, Celestron 8-inch NexStar GPS telescope with f/2 Fastar optics, NexRemote and SatelliteTracker software and a soundtrack from the shortwave time signal WWV from an observing site inside Toronto. The field of view here is about 40' x 50', slightly larger than the Full Moon So while NASA is loosing a 100 million dollar satellite, the NAVY is going "Full Speed Ahead" and never once was it mentioned that it was even up there. |
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| HAARP Did you know HAARP was a NAVY NRL Program? You do now NRL - The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program - [retrieved from Internet Archives] Navys Record-Breaking Railgun Shot  Screen capture from the Video... notice the logo on the target shows the rail gun in space. Can someone translate that Latin? Navy's Record-Breaking Railgun Shot Navy's Record-Breaking Railgun Shot Video
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia  N00178-05-Q-3010
A--University and Non-Profit Scientific and Engineering - [retrieved from Internet Archives] Space to NAVELEX Exploration Helps Drive Navy Reorganization Efforts to conquer space began in earnest in the early 1960s when the first U.S. manned spacecraft Freedom 7 was successfully launched and recovered May 5, 1961. Both Astronaut Alan Shepard and the Freedom 7 were flown safely by helicopter to the deck of the USS Lake Champlain within 11 minutes of landing. With that successful recovery, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land men on the moon and return them safely to earth before 1970. Space Program drives Navy to reorganization. In answer to the challenge, NASA launched the Apollo Space Program. It soon became apparent that supporting the space program would be a significant priority for the Navy. Indeed, support of the space program and the launching of its own satellite navigation systems drove a number of organizational changes within the Navy. Along with some existing challenges the Navy had been battling for some time. PDF Paper - [retrieved from Internet Archives] Naval Space Command (NAVSPACECOM) (U) Description (U): (U) Headquartered at Dahlgren, Virginia, NAVSPACECOM began operations October 1, 1983. NAVSPACECOM uses the medium of space and its potential to provide essential information and capabilities to ashore and afloat naval forces by: -Operating assigned systems; -Executing missions assigned by USCINCSPACE; -Advocating naval warfighting requirements in the joint arena; and -Advising, supporting, and assisting naval services through training and by developing space plans, programs, budgets, policies, concepts, and doctrine. (U) NAVSPACECOM also serves as the naval service component of the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), established in 1985. Component responsibilities include operating assigned space systems to provide surveillance and warning, as well as providing spacecraft telemetry and on-orbit engineering support. In addition, NAVSPACECOM provides facilities and staffs a command center 24 hours a day to serve as the Alternate Space Control Center (ASCC) for USSPACECOM's primary center located at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base, Colo. ASCC missions include operational direction of the entire global Space Surveillance Network for CINCSPACE. The ASCC also detects, tracks, identifies, and catalogs all man-made objects in space and provides ephemeris on these objects to approximately1,000 customers. It also monitors the space environment and informs owners and operators of U.S. and allied space systems of potential threat to their assets by continuous liaison with the systems' operations centers. Finally, NAVSPACECOM provides administrative oversight for two Echelon 3 operational Navy activities: the Naval Satellite Operations Center (NAVSOC) and the Fleet Surveillance Support Command (FLTSURVSUPPCOM). http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/navspace.htm - [retrieved from Internet Archives] US Naval Space Command Space Surveillance System One of the lesser-known assets of the US Space Command's world-wide space surveillance system is the 217 MHz NAVSPASUR "fence" across the southern US. The following items from various sources (indicated in italics) give some basic information about the system, its history and use. US Naval Space Command Space Surveillance System US NAVY Program Executive Office Space Systems  Credit: US NAVY PEO Space Systems Organization Info Mission Statement The PEO Space Systems mission is to develop, acquire, integrate, produce, launch, test and provide operational support to reliable, affordable, flexible, effective and seamless space systems that support DOD and U.S. agencies to enable joint, coalition, combined and naval operations. PEO Space Systems coordinates all Department of the Navy space research, development and acquisition activities. US NAVY Program Executice Office Space Systems Naval Space Command The naval services' growing dependence on space prompted the Secretary of the Navy to establish a new command that would consolidate space activities and organizations that operate and maintain naval space systems. This new organization - the Naval Space Command - was commissioned on October 1, 1983. It was a decisive move to bring together several activities under a single command to strengthen operational control, provide a central focal point for naval space matters, and more effectively guide future operational uses of space. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usspc-fs/navspace.htm |
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| Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) History of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) from 1942, showing vintage pictures, robotics, dolphin and seal cams, to satellites and Titan rocket launches National Defense Industrial Association - [dead link no archive] Is this the Military Industrial Complex Eisenhower told us to beware of?  Credit: National Defense Industrial Association Space Based Laser (SBL) SBL Space Based Laser  TRW Directed Energy Weapon  SBL Deployment Schedule 2004 DEW Symposium Captured on spy cam at the symposium SEA LAUNCH Sea Launch is a private joint venture between Boeing (American) and Energia (Russian) that launches rockets from a mobile ocean going platform. Sea Launch home page - [retrieved from Internet Archives] Pegasus page I include this here because we have rumors that the NAVY also has a secret platform like this... but to date we have not found it... yet But perhaps it will show up soon... HOWEVER, that being said we have some other items along this line... USS Midway... the FIRST Sea Launch. German V2 rockets launched from the deck of the USS Midway Operation Sandy USS Midway 1947 Sealar - Sea Launch and Recovery The Naval Research Laboratory's concept exploration program to demonstrate sea launch and recovery of a rocket. Praxis provided program planning and control, graphics and presentation support, hardware and software technical documentation development, networks scheduling, and launch site support. Praxis was responsible for a number of high level briefings to U.S. Navy and Congressional staff to support the development of the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement signed between the Naval Research Laboratory and the SEALAR corporation. Note: Praxis is the company that made the Clementine Satellite for the DoD/Navy Mission Sea Launch Sealar Aquarius Sea-launched orbital launch vehicle. Year: 2006. Country: USA. Status: Study 1998-2006. Astronautix SEALAR (Sea Launched Rocket) Global Security Pegasus And we did find ONE mobile ocean going platform similar to Sea Launch... but this is the Radar Unit. So I am pretty confident I will eventually find that other launch platform ;D Sea-based X-Band Radar  The
Sea-Based X-Band radar arrives in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the
heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin on January 9, 2006, passing behind the
U.S.S. ARIZONA Memorial. Image Courtesy of Missile Defense Agency
(MDA)
Sea-based X-Band Radar  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jan. 9, 2006) -
The heavy lift vessel MV Blue Marlin enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with
the Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) aboard after completing a 15,000-mile
journey from Corpus Christi, Texas.
Image Courtesy of Missile Defense Agency (MDA)  Image Courtesy of Missile Defense Agency (MDA) |
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| SELENE No I am not suggesting the Japanese Lunar Orbiter is connected to the NAVY. In the spacecraft "Kaguya SELENE" stands for "SELenological and ENgineering Explorer" JAXA | SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) The NAVY SELENE stands for "SpacE Laser ENergy" Why this odd acronym? Good question... maybe it does have something to do with the Japanese Moon Ship after all :P Information is difficult to find but we have some things to go on... Exuberant1 has been working to track this one down, as well as other info on lasers to transfer power from Earth to satellite, from satellite to ground, and from satellite to satellite... SELENE has the ability to send POWER TO THE MOON... think about the implications of THAT. NAOMI/SELENE site design Hislop, Arthur Q.; Malik, John L.; Richter, David J.; Bennett, Harold E. Proc. SPIE Vol. 2376, p. 297-314, Laser Power Beaming II, Harold E. Bennett; Richard D. Doolittle; Eds. Abstract:
The Birchum Mesa SELENE (Space Laser Energy) facility will be dual use
facility as it provides for progressive development of high power Free
Electron Lasers (FEL) and commercial laser beam power transfer to
space-borne vehicles. The facility will be comprised of SELENE mainsite
containing two laser system bays and supporting facilities with
transport tunnels coupling to the Beam Transfer Optical System (BTOS)
which is the active optical array space beam director with its
supporting facility. The first generation commercial grade laser will
operate at 100 kW of quasi-CW laser power with a planned growth to 10
MW of output power. The BTOS beam director will direct a focus
compensated laser power beam to provide power service to space vehicles
within a +/- 50 degree (half angle from zenith) tracking cone service
field. An underground hardened site is proposed for this facility to
mitigate any potentially hazardous effects from operation of a very
high energy CW electron beam laser, to protect the facility from
inadvertent weapons splashdown during range Test and Evaluation
operations, and to create minimum environmental impact upon historical
and ecological elements of the range.
PAPER PDF Advantages of China Lake for laser power beaming Bennett, Harold E. Proc. SPIE Vol. 2376, p. 280-296 Laser Power Beaming II, Harold E. Bennett; Richard D. Doolittle; Eds. Abstract: The site for the proposed National Advanced Optic Mission Initiative (NAOMI) facility will be in the mountains near China Lake, California. This location has 260 clear days per year (more than any other feasible site in the U.S.). In 1993 there were 5 completely overcast days all year. The area near the proposed site is unpopulated. The solar insolation in this general area is the greatest of any area in the United States. The NAOMI system will be installed at an altitude of 5600 feet. Astronomical seeing there is excellent. Even at a less favored site than that planned for NAOMI the average Fried seeing coefficient ro is 12 cm in the visible region and 20 cm values of ro (comparable to the best observatories) are commonly observed. The area is centrally located in and entirely surrounded by one of the largest restricted airspace/military operating airspace complexes in the United States, 12% of the entire airspace in California. Electrical power is available from either the nearly Coso Geothermal plant, second largest in the United States, or from the even closer cogeneration plant at Trona, California. Cooling water can be obtained from the nearby area or from the lake itself. Although a dry playa, the lake has a high brackish groundwater level. Most of the commercial satellites over the U.S. could be reached by a laser/telescope system located on government land at the Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) military reservation at China Lake. This telescope/laser system will be a prototype for five other systems planned for around the world. The complex will provide laser power beaming to all satellites and put the United States into the position of world leader in satellite technology and power beaming to space. ABSTRACT ONLY Now the part about beaming power via laser to the Moon Beam Transmission Optical System (BTOS) SELENE Introduction The
development of the Beam Transmission Optical System (BTOS) is a portion
of a larger project entitled SpacE Laser Electric ENErgy (SELENE). The
SELENE project utilizes a high energy, free electron laser to transfer
energy from the ground to orbiting spacecraft or other space targets such as a lunar base BTOS is the systcm that delivers the beam energy from the laser to the target.
The primary mission objective of SELENE is to provide energy for operation of geosynchronous satellites including steady-state power for operations, periodic low power for station keeping, periodic high power during eclipses, and high power for transfer orbit apogee burn. SELENE will also provide energy for operation at middle and high earth orbits (MEO) of 3000+ kilometers. Another possible usage for SELENE will be to provide energy to a laser-augmented solar-electric orbit transfer vehicle wherein a low earth orbit (LEO) vehicle transfers to geosynchronous orbit (GEO) through a spiral trajectory path. Finally, SELENE will provide continuous steady-state energy for operation of a lunar base. Structural Design Considerations for the Beam Transmission Optical System Paul D. MacNeal and Michael C. Lou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California As I said I will create a new thread on the LASER POWER Transmission as there is a lot to cover... I just wanted to show the tie in with the NAVY SPACE PROGRAM and the BEAMING OF POWER VIA SUPER LASERS TO SPACE CHINA LAKE Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Weapons Division PAO: About China Lake - Ridgecrest That's all for now... I have lots more to add but I needed to get the thread started. All this data and more is collected on the pegasus website as well as our forum. There are many links to sites and papers and it is an on going project, especially as more data is released from the NAVY PS This just to add because its done... and is NAVY Nothing to do with space... And just because its a 'secret' HAWTHORNE NEVADA Navy Submarine Base Under the Nevada Desert? NUWC Naval Underwater Warfare Center - Hawthorne Nevada Division Photo Tour at Gate The end... for now ;) You may now add your "Holy S...." reactions ;D |
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