STRAWMAN The Deep Black Signals In telligence Satellite

摘要

On the night of 5 October, 1968 a Thor Agena-D rocket with Castor solid rocket boosters lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, lighting up the skies above California's picturesque central coast. It headed out over the Pacific Ocean. After climbing high into the sky the boosters peeled off the rocket's side. Its core stage continued burning as the rocket headed southward past Los Angeles and then San Diego and Mexico until it too was depleted and jettisoned. Then the Agena second stage fired, pushing the payload higher and faster into the southern hemisphere and then eventually over Antarctica.