Iran launches spy satellite
Iranian officials today confirmed the successful launch of its Qased rocket, placing a classifed Noor spy satellite into orbit.
The Space Force confirmed this announcement, tracking two objects (one likely the satellite and the other the upper stage) in a 442 by 456 kilometer orbit with a 60.0 degree inclination. That steep inclination will allow the satellite to cross over two thirds of the Earth’s surface.
This was Iran’s first launch in 2023, and third launch of this type spy satellite and rocket since 2020. The leaders in the 2023 launch race remain the same:
68 SpaceX
44 China
13 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
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Iranian officials today confirmed the successful launch of its Qased rocket, placing a classifed Noor spy satellite into orbit.
The Space Force confirmed this announcement, tracking two objects (one likely the satellite and the other the upper stage) in a 442 by 456 kilometer orbit with a 60.0 degree inclination. That steep inclination will allow the satellite to cross over two thirds of the Earth’s surface.
This was Iran’s first launch in 2023, and third launch of this type spy satellite and rocket since 2020. The leaders in the 2023 launch race remain the same:
68 SpaceX
44 China
13 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Since we‘re at war with Iran, why don‘t we shoot the thing down? Paging General Kelly Lynch! Oh, wait, she‘s too busy watching out for her gay friends in the Space Force!
When you comment, you try not to look foolish. I was referring to the Air Force (or Space Force) general who admitted that her primary concern was not posting her gay subordinates to states which passed “anti-gay” legislation. Apparently it wasn‘t “Kelly Lynch” (whoever that is!) I just wish the new Space Force would shoot down things which threaten our nation, like chi-com spy balloons, which at 130,000 feet should be handled by the Space Force, not the Air Force.
Wasn’t that spy balloon at something like 60K feet? Or was there something else?