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Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by Allred5923
Excellent find ! thank you
that is amazing footage and i have never seen anything like that before.
i agree the different firing of the stages is very strange and the object is strange looking also.
didn't the guy in the video say it was heading towards Mexico ?
also that was a good camera he was using.
thanks again Allred5923 , star for you
It seemed more oval-ed or cylindrical in shape
It looks more like a contrail being lit by the sunset than a missile launch. The plane is not moving up, it is moving toward the camera.
In the video , the young boy mentions something to his father about a "Docking/Launching" platform out in the middle of the ocean, maybe it is some kind of new fangled experimental device, secret surveillance or the like, "I truly don't know."
What we need is to have Zorgon or JPM come in this thread and take a peek, alyosha might be a good one for an analogy as well.
Originally posted by easynow
when i first saw the video that possibility did cross my mind and i would go with that explanation if the supposed contrail was a steady arc. but it is not a steady arc in my opinion and the object appears to change direction.
also there is no indication at all that the object is shaped like a plane.
Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. As of September 2008 it had assembled and launched 29 rockets, with two failures and one partial failure.
The sea-based launch system means the rockets can be fired from the optimum position on Earth's surface, considerably increasing payload capacity and reducing launch costs compared to land-based systems.
The Sea Launch consortium of four companies from the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Norway, was established in 1995 and their first rocket was launched in March 1999. It is managed by Boeing with participation from the other shareholders. [1] [2]
All commercial payloads have been communications satellites intended for geostationary transfer orbit with such customers as EchoStar, DirecTV, XM Satellite Radio, and PanAmSat.
The launcher and its payload are assembled on a purpose-built ship Sea Launch Commander in Long Beach, California. It is then positioned on top of the self-propelled platform Ocean Odyssey and moved to the equatorial Pacific Ocean for launch, with the Sea Launch Commander serving as command center.
Originally posted by ziggystar60
reply to post by easynow
I am not Zorgon, but regarding a launching platform out in the ocean, there is a company called "Sea Launch" which is the world's only ocean-based space launch company at the moment:
Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. As of September 2008 it had assembled and launched 29 rockets, with two failures and one partial failure.
The sea-based launch system means the rockets can be fired from the optimum position on Earth's surface, considerably increasing payload capacity and reducing launch costs compared to land-based systems.
The Sea Launch consortium of four companies from the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Norway, was established in 1995 and their first rocket was launched in March 1999. It is managed by Boeing with participation from the other shareholders. [1] [2]
All commercial payloads have been communications satellites intended for geostationary transfer orbit with such customers as EchoStar, DirecTV, XM Satellite Radio, and PanAmSat.
The launcher and its payload are assembled on a purpose-built ship Sea Launch Commander in Long Beach, California. It is then positioned on top of the self-propelled platform Ocean Odyssey and moved to the equatorial Pacific Ocean for launch, with the Sea Launch Commander serving as command center.
Sea Launch Commander is the command ship for Sea Launch. It was built by Kvaerner Govan Ltd, at Govan shipyard, in Glasgow, Scotland. Its home port is Long Beach, California.
en.wikipedia.org...
The homepage of the company "Sea Launch":
www.boeing.com...
I see a straight flight path with a turn. Planes do that pretty often especially when they may be preparing for a descent to land (Miami perhaps). The object is coming from the WSW, a left turn would be a turn in that direction.
There is no indication that the bunch of pixels is shaped like anything but a bunch of pixels. It could be a plane, it could be a shuttle, it could be a winged horse.
it could be a winged horse