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Originally posted by Smell The Roses
reply to post by greeneyedleo
Sorry but that patch you linked to with the smiling monkey seems a lot different than the hell fire devil patch on this rocket.
The patch is scary. Reminds me of a phoenix in flames getting ready for rebirth. Definitely not in the same realm as the monkey fun patch. Sorry.edit on 21-1-2011 by Smell The Roses because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Smell The Roses
reply to post by greeneyedleo
Um... I DID read your post.
So you would consider the patch used for the largest west coast rocket launch (one of significant importance), a "fun" patch? You realize the patch is being seen by the world and is on a symbolic location at the head of the rocket?
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Being a USAF family since it was formed, we've seen and collected a lot of patches in our time too, and to be honest, none ever really creeped me out the way these two do (the one i linked to from here and the one in the other thread too). Maybe things have changed.
Originally posted by moosevernel
or it could be an eagle burning?? who knows..
An image of a devil features on the launch patch. The old tradition of giving rockets personal names also appears to have been revived; Delta 352 seems to have been named “Betty”, and the Atlas V that launched from Vandenberg last year was named “Gladys”.
Since the identity of NRO L-49 and a KH-11 satellite has not yet been confirmed, several other types of spacecraft are possible. In the past, heavy-lift Titan rockets have also launched Lacrosse radar imaging satellites from Vandenberg; however with the launch of NRO L-41 last year it would appear that smaller, more modern radar satellites have replaced them.
www.thespacereview.com...
All of these symbols on the patch hint that this is the fifteenth launch of a KH-11 type electro-optical reconnaissance satellite.
Originally posted by Smell The Roses
Would like to see a single thread dedicated to this one patch. This patch has meaning, and it doesn't appear to be a happy one. Think about how they had said recently they have no money in the budget for projects like this. Now, all of a sudden we have the largest satellite ever being launched into space by the largest rocket ever launched on the west coast? And on top of that they have one of the most bizarre, eerie, recognizable themes on the patch they use on this massive rocket?
Originally posted by ruffagii
Thats a rising phoenix taking over the earth, it is right in front of us, do research on rising phoenix from egyptian stories, it is evil and demonic