Political decision Day spy satellite dispatch has odd Lord of the Rings topic
What might a straightforward Bagginses think about this?
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is being prepared for a mission that will send a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite into space from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this Tuesday, which is Election Day in the United States.
While data about NRO dispatches is consistently somewhat scant for clear reasons, this one appears to be moderately normal aside from the confounding mission fine art that remembers an expression for ... Elvish?
The banner for the mission, which is authoritatively called NROL-101, sports a really away from of the Rings subject, including a couple of interlocking brilliant rings and the expression "goodness perseveres" written in both English and Elvish Tengwar content, the anecdotal language thought up completely by writer J.R.R. Tolkien himself.
A United Launch Alliance representative revealed to me the fine art and topic originated from NRO, which didn't promptly react to a solicitation for input.
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It's not strange for NRO to pick a quotable expression and topic for its central goal banners. Generally they include some expression in Latin and some kind of mythic character like a Pegasus or Thor.
In any case, we'll probably never know the insights regarding this puzzling subject similarly as we'll presumably never know the specs of the satellite being dispatched Tuesday.
Takeoff is set for 2:58 p.m. PT (5:58 p.m. Florida time) and will be streamed live. When the feed opens up, we'll implant it here.
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