US loses military weather satellite

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11444155/US-military-satellite-explodes-above-Earth.html

OK, tinfoil hat on - loss of satellite after sudden temperature spike?

Was this a shoot down?

inadequate bandwidth-there is too much weather right now....

fyrwrxz said:

inadequate bandwidth-there is too much weather right now....

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Well if they can tell me where they last had it I will help them look for it - have they looked down the back of the sofa yet ?

I think there's a strong possibility it's somewhere in the cosmos. If not that, then the space/time continuum.

Sorry, should have been clearer....by lost, I meant that the satellite blew up (or was blown up).

They know where the pieces are.

J Blatz said:

Sorry, should have been clearer....by lost, I meant that the satellite blew up (or was blown up).

They know where the pieces are.

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I think I found one behind the sofa.....

fyrwrxz said:

I think I found one behind the sofa.....

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Someone on TRF had one for sale?

We will see it on eBay soon enough... Mint condition...

https://spacenews.com/20-year-old-military-weather-satellite-wasnt-first-of-its-kind-to-explode/

My guess is a propulsion system failure. Hydrazine will explode if overheated hot or shocked. Not all that an unusual occurrence.

Bob

It was a secret weather satellite. It was there to monitor the secret weather the government didn't want you to know about.

Hardly.

https://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/f13_platform.gd.html

https://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?ids=Platform&values=DMSP-F13

https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/60

Bob

jmattingly13 said:

It was a secret weather satellite. It was there to monitor the secret weather the government didn't want you to know about.

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That's fine with me. We've had a lot of weather this year that we wish we had never known about.....

bobkrech said:

https://spacenews.com/20-year-old-military-weather-satellite-wasnt-first-of-its-kind-to-explode/

My guess is a propulsion system failure. Hydrazine will explode if overheated hot or shocked. Not all that an unusual occurrence.

Bob

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Especially a 20 year old weather satellite. Could have been a lot of natural phenomena to cause the hydrazine to explode. Near earth space has lots of junk flying around. Could just gave easily been hit by a small piece of space junk. I think given the age, this is nothing unusual for it hi explode.

Mike

USAFmissileer said:

I think given the age, this is nothing unusual for it hi explode.
Mike

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Sounds like some of us here on TRF..........

evil ed said:

That's fine with me. We've had a lot of weather this year that we wish we had never known about.....

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We had about a 1/4" of rain two days ago and you'd swear the news stations were waiting to interview Noah. Now we're back to plain old secret weather. Even the newscasters are bored!

Damn!!
It was right here a moment ago.
Did anybody see where I put my weather satellite?