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Old 11-13-2013, 07:46 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by S3XPanther View Post
Btw, this seems like an appropriate place to inject this. Is anyone here familiar with the Black Knight satellite? I would like to know what you guys think, even though it's supposedly just a piece of shielding from a previous space mission.
The Black Knight is difficult to explain. It was supposedly first detected in 1953. . It's only been seen with the naked eye on two occasions that I know of. First was in 1963 by an astronaut traveling into space and then again in 1998 by Space Shuttle Endeavour's crew of STS-88. It's in a polar orbit. Which wasn't obtainable at that time by the Soviets or Americans.
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