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Russia Retaliates: Blocks GPS, Bans US Use Of Its Rocket Engines
Just as Russia had promised, sanctions were not effective and so they went straight to targeted bans. On the heels of The Pentagon admitting that they had "no solution" to replacing Russian rocket engines in the launch systems for US military satellites (as we have covered extensively), Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin this morning announced:
- *ROGOZIN: RUSSIA TO HALT U.S. GPS BASES IN RUSSIA ON JUNE 1:IFX
- *RUSSIAN BAN ON ROCKET USE FOR US MILITARY SATELLITE LAUNCHES: IFX
He further added that Russia will not extend its partnership in the International Space Station beyond 2020 (which suggests Russia does not expect a quick resolution to the current tensions).
As RT reports,
Moscow is banning Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines, which the US has used to deliver its military satellites into orbit, said Russia’s Deputy PM, Dmitry Rogozin, who is in charge of space and defense industries.
According to Rogozin, Russia is also halting the operation of all American GPS stations on its territory from June 1.
Russia currently hosts 11 ground-based GPS stations, the Deputy PM said.
The move comes after the US refused to place a signal correction station for Russia’s own space-based satellite navigation system, GLONASS, on American territory, he explained.
This is a major problem for the US military because (as Bloomberg reports),
The Pentagon has no “great solution” to reduce its dependence on a Russian-made engine that powers the rocket used to launch U.S. military satellites, the Defense Department’s top weapons buyer said.
“We don’t have a great solution,” Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, said yesterday after testifying before a Senate committee. “We haven’t made any decisions yet.”
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the Air Force to review its reliance on the rocket engine after tensions over Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea region prompted questions from lawmakers about that long-time supply connection.
United Launch Alliance LLC, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., uses the Russian-made RD-180 engine on Atlas V rockets.
As Putin warned - apparently correctly...
“The US is certainly one of the world’s leaders. At some point it seemed that it was the only leader and a uni-polar system was in place. Today it appears that is not the case. Everything in the world is interdependent and once you try to punish someone, in the end you will cut off your nose to spite your face,” he said.
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Are satellites still economically or militarily important? If the US needs to launch satellites, can't we just roll them up Cash Mountain?
Don't be absurd.
With all this liquidity the cash can be stuffed into the rockets and lit on fire as fuel.
What is a GPS base?
The system is satellite based.
http://www.gdgps.net/system-desc/network.html
http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/
Satellites drift. Corrections are required & I imagine ground-stations which don't move help keep satellites where they need to be. If they kept drifting there'd be no way to use the signals as a reference.
WTF???
Didn't we land men on the moon with American made rockets? What great minds thought it would be a great idea to use Russian engines in our launch vehicles?
Well, I guess they can throw away the "International Space Station" title and replace it with the "Russian Space Base" cause that sucker is now accessible to the Russians only.
I do envy the Russians in that they have a leader steering the ship.
Wake up! We never landed on the moon! http://one-vibration.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2127676%3ABlogPost%3A7007...
- 3X Van Allen Belt
- Moon Temps and radiation
How Stanley Kubrick faked the Apollo Moon Landings http://www.sacredmysteries.com/public/263.cfm
Well there is "something" up there, cause you can bounce a laser off it!
We put men on the moon during the 1960's before all of the diversiy /affirmative action laws and silly technolgy crap (e.g. Iphones, video games, etc.) took everything over and dumbed us down.
Hell, most of those old geeky, super smart, white, button-down collar, heterosexual male engineers and scientists who were in NASA during the 60's probably wouldn't make it through the first screening job interview today. NASA would probably hire a retarded Lesbian bi-racial woman over any of 'em just to fill the quotas.
I don't think Tsar Putin's "primitive" Russia pays much attention to American-style 21st century diversity crap . I suspect that the SOB just puts the best and brightest in the research labs. This is particularly frightening because we may in for some big surprises should we ever confront Russia in a real war.
Our dumb kneegrow can't do anything right. Forward monkey!
Part of me wonders if the military industrial complex is now rejoicing that there may now be an "emergency" bid for an American space/defense company to produce the rockets they need... of course with an balloon-able budget ripe for abuse.
The Pentagon admitting that they had "no solution" to replacing Russian rocket engines in the launch systems for US military satellites
TR3B
Bindar Dundat.
Hussein Obimbo should comment it once more with the obligatory: there will be costs.
This is a big problem for "apple". Unless you know where the cell towers are, maybe the towers will get their own system too.
The only good news is that America has nothing left that Russia needs or wants... We are a lot like Western Ukraine, with weak leaders, mountains of debt, few resources worth exporting, little manufacturing, and a population that would rather not work.
What are you talking about? We have Iphones, Ipads, and lots of really cool apps that Tsar Putin's serfs can't live without in his evil Empire.
Edit: Of course Apple hardware is mainly manufactured for Apple by Foxconn in China and a lot of the Apps are now being coded in India.... Never mind.
EXCELLENT SIGNS
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I'm not saying the predators-DBA-russia are enormously better than predators-DBA-USSA, but anything that reduces the ease with which the most egregious predators act is helpful.
The best case scenario, which will never happen of course, is that the predators become so busy screwing with each other that... they mostly reduce the efficiency of each others ability to manipulate, and also distract their attention from their prey (the producers in their own fictitious nations).
We can only hope this trend gets seriously out of hand... but stops short of nuclear war. Actually, at this point, limited nuclear war might end up having more positive than negative effect, especially if the predators mostly target each others capitol cities and "political assets". That's how seriously screwed the world is at this point.
Fuck that. Citizens of the world: kidnap the "leaders" and put them all together in a room with a bomb.
They can continue to argue, lobby, etc., just like normal but they can also choose to blow each other all up.
Just them, no cities, none of the citizens.
They already point nukes at each other so their own death would happen regardless.
We just remove ourselves from being targets.
They're still free to have their elections, royal heirs, etc., come take their place in the blow-up armored room to take their "rightful" office.
!!!!! GREAT MOVIE IDEA !!!!!
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Freaking rad, man! Just like the "Truman Show"... except gas all politicians on planet earth, put them in an equivalent fake world (maybe some kind of fake "United Nations"), and let them invent and pass laws for the rest of time.
Might even sorta work in practice too... except for the fact that actually the predators-DBA-corporations and predators-DBA-NGOs actually run the planet, and they'd definitely notice is the laws and regulations they pay to have implemented... were not being implemented any more.
So, as a practical matter, won't work.
But as a movie idea... great idea!
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PS: I suppose the modern way to write such a movie is not to create fake physical worlds like in "Truman Show", but put them all in comas and hook them up to some kind of 3D-graphics virtual reality world.
Just get rid of warmongering John McCain and his effeminate man-crush,Lindsey Graham, and the probability of nuclear armegeddon is reduced by 50%. Throw in the rest of the inside-the-beltway Neocon human refuse and the probability is reduced another 40%.
I meant planet-wide, not just Murrika. Israel, China, Russia, Murrikinz, UK, the works.
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Do these putz'z in Washington not watch Game of Thrones?
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Rockets are silly and overrated. In America we have important stuff like Iphones and lots of other cool Apple stuff. Don’t the stupid Russians know that Steve Jobs was a genius and saved the universe? Apple could fire a rocket up with astronauts but it just doesn’t have time right now because it's developing the Iphone 6 which is the most important thing in the world. Those evil stupid Russians better watch out because we Americans have technology and lots of really cool Apps for our Iphones.
Space X has already linked up with the ISS
Just tilt the table that way.
this way, this symbol disappears: Working to a single arm humanity goes further ...!
I did not live in the cold war but after being told that it existed, I always looked at this orbital station as a landmark for an evolution together leaving behind historical dogmatism and geographic strategies that always led us to our separation and our zoning.
I never expected that we regress this way, never expected to see the countries to resolve historical and geographical errors in the way I saw. Referendum, with voting papers without being folded, transparent ballot boxes guarded by weapons of gentlemen who want only one kind of voting, in the center of a military occupation where the media is the first target, to thereby inform the population as understand. Some would even call it freedom ..?!
Too bad this did not happen this time. But the truth is that the Ascension of humanity does not fit right kind of mindset. I was wrong when I saw them building this space station together swapping between them the best of each.?!. I was wrong when I dreamed that mankind would now play its role as humankind is forced to play to give continuity to our species. Simply unlike Universe Planet Earth is finite and is part of our genes evolve, discover ... Ascend to a better society than that found in the past.
this year, that dream will end, with this protocol division, which kicked off in Ukraine.