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#1440
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Skyrocket
on 08 Nov, 2015 12:42
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Carl Rigg drew my attention to another missile defense test - in the UK!!!!
Chris - check this out = FIRST EXOATMOSPHERIC ROCKET LAUNCH IN THE UK SINCE 1982
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=91638
Terrier Orion from South Uist intercepted by Aegis from US Navy ship.
I'll defer to your excitment, but it's a US missile of a US warship, off the northern edge of our waters in Scotland? We'd probably get more excited about a British missile launched from the States, but we're suckers for things with our flags on them! 
No, the launch concerned was the target vehicle launched from South Uist, not the ship launched missile, which intercepted it.
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#1441
by
jcm
on 08 Nov, 2015 15:09
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Carl Rigg drew my attention to another missile defense test - in the UK!!!!
Chris - check this out = FIRST EXOATMOSPHERIC ROCKET LAUNCH IN THE UK SINCE 1982
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=91638
Terrier Orion from South Uist intercepted by Aegis from US Navy ship.
I'll defer to your excitment, but it's a US missile of a US warship, off the northern edge of our waters in Scotland? We'd probably get more excited about a British missile launched from the States, but we're suckers for things with our flags on them!
No, the launch concerned was the target vehicle launched from South Uist, not the ship launched missile, which intercepted it.
Now an interesting (to me) question is which agency was responsible for launching the target vehicle.
The Aegis operation here seems to be pure US Navy not US Missile Defense Agency (nothing on the latter's website)
so was the target from MDA, USN, or even under the aegis (pun intended) of a UK organization like the Hebrides Range?
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#1442
by
edkyle99
on 10 Nov, 2015 02:13
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#1443
by
Star One
on 10 Nov, 2015 07:36
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#1444
by
Space Lizard
on 10 Nov, 2015 13:33
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#1445
by
Space Lizard
on 11 Nov, 2015 11:25
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#1446
by
jcm
on 11 Nov, 2015 13:58
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China Tests Anti-Satellite Missile
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-tests-anti-satellite-missile/
Any idea of what would have been the target then?
Previous tests in this series have seen suborbital short-range ballistic missile targets launched from Jiuquan,
with the interceptor launched from Korla as in this case.
I remain skeptical of the US intelligence community's confident declaration that this is an ASAT vehicle being tested... possible, but none of the evidence in the public domain drives one in that direction and there does seem to be enough of an agenda in recent DoD statements that one shouldn't trust them automatically.
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#1447
by
Star One
on 11 Nov, 2015 14:42
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China Tests Anti-Satellite Missile
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-tests-anti-satellite-missile/
Any idea of what would have been the target then?
Previous tests in this series have seen suborbital short-range ballistic missile targets launched from Jiuquan,
with the interceptor launched from Korla as in this case.
I remain skeptical of the US intelligence community's confident declaration that this is an ASAT vehicle being tested... possible, but none of the evidence in the public domain drives one in that direction and there does seem to be enough of an agenda in recent DoD statements that one shouldn't trust them automatically.
Why would you think that what's in the public domain is a good guide to a test like this, surely it's going to be clouded in classification?
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#1448
by
jcm
on 11 Nov, 2015 15:23
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China Tests Anti-Satellite Missile
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-tests-anti-satellite-missile/
Any idea of what would have been the target then?
Previous tests in this series have seen suborbital short-range ballistic missile targets launched from Jiuquan,
with the interceptor launched from Korla as in this case.
I remain skeptical of the US intelligence community's confident declaration that this is an ASAT vehicle being tested... possible, but none of the evidence in the public domain drives one in that direction and there does seem to be enough of an agenda in recent DoD statements that one shouldn't trust them automatically.
Why would you think that what's in the public domain is a good guide to a test like this, surely it's going to be clouded in classification?
Yes, I'm not saying public domain is enough (although you can tell a fair amount). But these days, I'm afraid, neither is it enough for the US IC to say "trust us, we know". Maybe they do, maybe they are fooling themselves again.
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#1449
by
Satori
on 14 Nov, 2015 09:00
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The VS-40M V03 suborbital rocket exploded on the Alcantara Launch Center, Maranhão - Brazil, on November 13. The rocket was going to be launched on the 'Operação São Lourenço' to launch the Satélite de Reentrada Atmosférica (SARA), to test reentry technologies as well to develop engineering and electronic products.
The were no casualties resulted from the explosion and the rocket didn't liftoff.
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#1450
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 17 Nov, 2015 06:09
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Here are photos of the vehicle prior to launch. Taken from link below. Just noticed that the two photos have different paint schemes! The first photo has VS-40 clearly written on the side. Also, does anyone know if V01 and V02 were launched?
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#1451
by
Skyrocket
on 17 Nov, 2015 07:12
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Here are photos of the vehicle prior to launch. Taken from link below. Just noticed that the two photos have different paint schemes! The first photo has VS-40 clearly written on the side. Also, does anyone know if V01 and V02 were launched?
The first picture is not an actual launch vehicle, but a file photo of a mock up on display. The second one is also a file photo of second of the original VS-40 launches.
The VS-40M, which failed a few days ago did not have a payload shroud, but an unshrouded SARA reentry payload with an orange checkerbord pattern and white fins.
Here are some photos of the recent launch vehicle:
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#1452
by
Skyrocket
on 17 Nov, 2015 07:15
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Also, does anyone know if V01 and V02 were launched?
The two original VS-40 were designated PT01 and V02. I do not know the serial number of the first VS-40M, which launched SHEFEX-2.
Here is the list of all VS-40 and VS-40M launches:
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/vs40.htm
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#1453
by
Lewis007
on 17 Nov, 2015 07:25
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A lot of missile tests these days:
On November 14, 2015 the Vladimir Monomakh submarine of the Project 955 Borey class performed a successful launch of two Bulava missiles. The submarine was deployed in the White Sea for the launch. All missiles warheads are said to successfully reached their targets at the Kura test site in Kamchatka.
This may have been the second attempt to carry out a salvo launch from Vladimir Monomakh. Preparations for a test were completed in September, but the submarine returned to the port without launching its missiles. Today's launch was announced earlier this week.
For Vladimir Monomakh it is the second test launch - the first one took place in September 2014. It is also the second two-missile salvo launch of Bulava - the first one was carried out in December 2011 from the lead Project 955 submarine, Yuri Dolgorukiy. After these launches Bulava has made 25 launches, of which 16 were successful.
Source:
http://russianforces.org/blog/2015/11/two_bulava_missiles_launched_f.shtmlVideo:
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#1454
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 17 Nov, 2015 08:06
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#1455
by
Skyrocket
on 17 Nov, 2015 08:30
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#1456
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 17 Nov, 2015 08:43
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Thanks again Gunter. That link says that the second launch was PT-02 and not V02 as listed on your VS-40 web page, so maybe SHEFEX II was V02.
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#1457
by
Skyrocket
on 17 Nov, 2015 08:57
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Thanks again Gunter. That link says that the second launch was PT-02 and not V02 as listed on your VS-40 web page, so maybe SHEFEX II was V02.
Thank you for spotting the mistake. Brazilian rockets apparently have a single numbering sequence, although the prefix letters change for experimental and operational flights. Therefore it is unlikely, that SHEFEX-2 was number 01, 02 or 03, as these are accounted for.
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#1458
by
GClark
on 17 Nov, 2015 09:01
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Perhaps they only assign numbers to launches from Brazil? They may be mission numbers, not vehicle serial numbers...
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#1459
by
Skyrocket
on 17 Nov, 2015 09:06
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Perhaps they only assign numbers to launches from Brazil? They may be mission numbers, not vehicle serial numbers...
For other brazilian sounding rockets, like e.g. VS-30 or VSB-30, they assign these numbers also for launches from abroad (
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_fam/s-30.htm)
