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Boeing Intelsat 33E satellite blows up.

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Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What is today is doctor Sky and he brightens up our Sunday morning because he he tells us about things that expands online. His real name is Steve Kates. Well, Steve, tell me what’s going on this weekend?

Speaker 2 Well, good morning Sunday morning to everyone listening. John, we’re a jampack. Good information here. First of all, let’s talk about a strange thing that happened with a Boeing satellite which had apparently exploded and just disappeared off the space radar screen, so to speak. It’s known as a Boeing intel Stat satellite known as IS thirty three. That particular satellite,

INTELSAT thirty three E was positioned at sixty degrees east longitude at about twenty two thousand miles in space. Now here we go this particular satellite. Nobody really knows why was the satellite destroyed. We don’t think anybody shot a rocket at it.

Speaker 1 Here.

Speaker 2 He is that this may have had some propellant tank issues which caused it somehow to just break up into a bunch of pieces. And that’s kind of sad because I’m sure unless they had a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy on This isn’t that strange, John, that we’re hearing more about these things, and said, the report a Boeing.

Speaker 1 Product, Steve Kates number one. You know, we had yesterday General Teikert who was with Space Command, and we asked them the same questions, and we came down to three answers. Either it got shot down by the Russians, the Ukrainian not the Ukrainians, the Russians, a Chinese whoever has the ability to do that, and out of space, because that’s

the real reason for Space Command to exist protecting our satellites. Or number two got hit by an asteroid. A number three that itself exploded is I would say the least possibility, because I don’t think that’s happened to any other Bowes or any other satellites. And the number four is that the fact that it’s a Boeing, that’s another nail in

the coffin.

Speaker 2 Well, John, I know the General knows much more about this, and we go on to his side of the equation. Here we’re giving us those possibilities. But it’s interesting. You’re right, satellites just don’t summarily just simply explode in space. But if it is a propellant issue. We probably will never know.

But again, the whole purpose, as we all know about space force, the guardians of outer space, is to find out if there’s any nefarious activities going on where in other words, other countries could destroy satellites in orbit. That is the purpose behind space forces. Well we all know.

Speaker 1 I’ll give you the generals and my other friends say there is no treaty in out of space right now. There is no treaty and the strong survive. And that’s one of the reasons I went to war war. AM radio to survive because if one of our enemies destroys our communications satellites and our GPS satellites, guess what your

I phone is now worth two cents? What was the old expression two cents Chinese money?

Speaker 2 Right? It’s not worth a you on if anything, versus a dollar.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I hope you have AM radio in the car or AM radio because it’s the only way to find out what the heck is going on.

Speaker 2 And a solerk to you, John and others that have been fighting to keep AM radio in vehicles new manufactured. We now know, of course, and we’re trying to educate the public as you are. The necessity for this. But here we go. We’ve got a whole bunch of things to talk about and we’ll try to get them through.

Here we find out that we talk aviation too. And here’s something interesting. Maybe many people may not know this. Our fleet of B two bombers, some of them have actually been positioned landing and taking off in a place in Australia called Darwin. And their sole purpose is they’ve been talking about in fighting a war against the hoodies,

is that they’ve actually been sent there. This isn’t, like you know, totally confirmed, but a good on the intel side say that they’ve been dropping these GBU fifty seven massive ordnance penetrator bombs. But what’s interesting about that is the B two is extremely stealth, as many people may not know, a two person crew can fly it. And

the new version John that they’ve just come out with a very secret type of aircraft is alleged to be able to fly under artificial intelligence. So just to let everybody know that our Air Force of course has watchful eyes on people like that that are doing some things against freedom. And isn’t that fascinating that the B twos

are now able to fly and possibly do what we just described interesting.

Speaker 1 Well, I guess they’re upgrading the B twos because those things, most of those things have been around for you sitting down, Who are your fifty years?

Speaker 2 Oh? You bet? And I remember a long time ago interviewing on shows that I’ve done in the past, John, the original iteration of those was the flying wings of the nineteen late forties and fifties, both a jet version and a propeller version, which then of course gave us the future technology that we have today. It’s just amazing.

And we go back to nineteen oh three with wil for in auble right, it’s an understatement to say how fast technology has of course expanded, not only in aviation but in space.

Speaker 1 But we do what else is going on out then?

Speaker 2 Well we got a miss the other week, John, Real quickly, here’s a question. Why do the planets in the Solar System revolves around the Sun in a counter clockwise rotation? Well, nobody really knows the answer, But what astronomers think is this is probably true. When the Solar System formed billions of years ago, that solar nebulace obviously started to rotate

in the counterclockwise direction. Sounds like a simple answer, but we find out two objects in the Solar System are very strange. Venus rotates backwards, meaning clockwise, and the planet Uranus is knocked on its side by about ninety eight degrees.

But if you sat on top of the Sun and looked straight down, this particular solar system rotates in a counterclockwise rotation, but not necessarily do all the other exoplanetary systems around other stars do the same. So that’s an interesting thing. Nobody really really knows. But to learn much more, John, what do we say? Always go to the Doctor Sky

Experience here at WABC radio dot com talking what astronomy, space, aviation, and weather with other positive interviews about American exceptionalism. As we wind up moving toward of every historic election just days away.

Speaker 1 Now that’s going to determine the future of the.

Speaker 2 World, you better believe, folks. So everybody needs to want we don’t know what they talk politics with you on this particular program, but go out there and vote, because you’re so right, John, The future of this country in the world, the free wildness.

Speaker 1 I’ve said to me, and I really feel like that the free world depends on the White House and a strong leader to keep it free.

Speaker 2 Absolutely like you say, and others say it just as proudly truth, justice, and the American American Way. Thank you, John.

Speaker 1 Okay, you have a mystery of the weekend.

Speaker 2 Well, I did talk about that, Okay, Okay.

Speaker 1 I understand. Well, Doctor Skuy Steve Kates enjoyed the rest of the weekend. God bless you and God bless America.

Speaker 2 Thank you, John, appreciate it.

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