Layarteb
02-06-2006, 08:11
"Ladies and gentlemen. Today is a crowing day for the achievements of our military, of our designers, and of our will to carry on as the dominant naval and military power in the world. Days like today are what drive our sailors and our military machine further and further at an ever quickening pace. Today we will go down in history as the worlds' most feared and decisive power with the launching of the Abaddon class. For years it has gone through rigorous testing, refittings, and all sorts of other modifications. Today is the day we can finally say that the and all its glory work! Gentlemen. We have six hours before the test. Please. Get comfortable." The Emperor shared a smile with his Cabinet and his Joint Chiefs inside his office as they watched, on a screen, an animated display of a very secluded, very secretive, very classified test that was about to take place.
Floating some 237.50 miles southwest of Godthåb, at a slow 3 knots, was the lead ship of the Abaddon class, the newest ship class of the Imperial Layartebian Navy. The Labrador Sea was dark, choppy, and cold. The seas went as deep at 11,100 feet and stretched 621 miles at its widest point. It was the summer now and the sea wasn't covered with ice but it was, by all means, no where near warm. This would be the perfect place to test the Abaddon. Weather wasn't favorable, which made the test even more important.
The Abaddon had been concieved from the Sehnsucht class but with a vastly different role. The Sehnsucht was nothing more than a massive spy vessel, that gathered intelligence by means of signals (SIGINT). Whilst the Sehnsucht could offensively jam and intercept aircraft, satellits, ground sites, and so on and so fourth, it was more of an intelligence gathering ship than anything else. It proved undefeatable in such operations. However, the necessity for a strict tracking ship was necessary. The Abaddon would fill a multitude of roles, mainly revolving around tracking. Its primary role would be as a tracking ship with secondary roles as an anti-satellite platform and missile defense. It would have very limited roles in both command and SIGINT operations as well. Due to its highly advanced nature, it would never be sailing with the fleet but rather on its own, being escorted by, at minimum, two attack submarines, just like its sister, the Sehnsucht.
The Abaddon was a large ship at that, though not nearly as large as the Sehnsucht. It was 750.00 feet long, with a 96.00 foot beam, and a draft of 22.00 feet. Displacing 48,000 tons, the Abaddon was powered by two pebblebed nuclear reactors, designated the SNR-7. Each reactor could put out a maximum of 200 megawatts, which translated to 268,204 shaft horsepower. Each reactor would be putting out 500,000 shaft horsepower for the Abaddon. Fueled by Thorium-232, the reactors didn't need refueling for 67 years and with provisions stored on the ship, they could sit out at sea for 180 days before having to return to port. The Sehnsucht had a similar endurance as well but used different reactors, enabling it to refuel once every 80 years. Because of this power, the Abaddon was driven by three screws, fed from six generators, and could move at a maximum speed of 35 knots, though 15 knots was considered tactical silent. The reactors are organized in such a way that enables them both to be run when high speed is necessary; however, when normal speed is required, the ship can run off a single reactor and use the other to power its weapons and sensor systems.
Much like the Sehnsucht class, the Abaddon could carry up to four aircraft, with a maximum weight of 25,000 pounds. However, due to space, it would only carry two helicopters and two UAVs. For UAVs, they would carry the RQ-8 Fire Scout, which could enable them extreme over-the-horizon targetting, against ships or for command and SIGINT. As far as helicopters went, it could carry a pair of SH-97 Serpent helicopters, although it was not limited to just the SH-97. The ship would be crewed by 280 sailors, 18 of them officers. As far as its sensor suite went, it carried the same as the Sehnsucht, the AN/SPY-4H AODSSS, the most powerful and classified version of the AODSSS. As far as other systems went, the ship carried the same offensive/defensive systems as the Sehnsucht, which enabled it to have SONAR masking systems, satellite defeat/jamming systems, radar jamming/defeat systems, and thermal masking systems. It also carried an advanced upper atmosphere suite, which enabled it to track satellites and other objects throughout LEO, which extended from 124 - 726 miles above the surface of the Earth. It had limited capabilities into the next area, which was between 726 and 21,925.7 miles, although it could not stretch up to the apex altitude of Medium Earth Orbit.
For weapons, the Abaddon had various types of defenses. Its primary armament was for use against satellites and was a two-tiered system. The first was a much less conventional system, which relied on a laser, called the Mid-Infrared Advance Chemical Laser (MIRACL). Based on the highly advanced design seen already in use since the mid-1980s, the MIRACL remains, to date, the highest average power laser in service with the (real-life United States). There have been more than 150 lasing tests and over 3,000 seconds of lase time during the last decade alone from this laser, which could achieve a maximum lasing duration of 70 seconds, with a range minimum of a quarter mile and a maximum range of infinity. The Abaddon carries enough charges for up to 200 shots before having to recharge the laser system. Recharging can take up to several days. The beam of the laser is invisible to the naked eye. The MIRACL works through a very intricate system. The satellite is first identified by a very high-powered camera, which can provide a full cross-section of the satellite. From there, the laser can be trained in on an area such as the power source, if it were nuclear powered, the solar array sources or panels, its own weapon and camera systems, or even its hull. The laser can disable the satellite in any of three ways. The first and easiest way would be to target the power source or weapon systems of the satellite, thereby causing an explosion. The second, which is much more difficult, would be to deform the hull of the satellite, causing its orbit to quickly degrade, burning up in the atmosphere upon re-entry. The last would be to disable the actual systems of the satellite, namely its cameras and sensors, which would, usually, keep the the satellite in orbit, forcing either a repair missile or the operators to force re-entry, burning up the satellite. The MIRACL system, while maximized for efficiency against satellites could also prove a limited role against ballistic missiles travelling towards their targets. The laser would operate in much the same way, either deforming the actual missile and causing it to burn up from friction or by overheating the propellant or warhead, causing the missile to explode in-flight.
The second tier for attacking satellites comes in a far more conventional form, which uses pure kinetics against the satellite. Normally, satellites travelling in LEO are moving at a speed of 17,895 miles per hour, which is a phenomenal amount of speed in itself, providing a significant amount of kinetic energy. Simply putting something in its direction, moving towards it at even 1 mile per hour, would make a closure rate of 17,896 miles per hour, devestating to the satellite. However, the faster the weapon moves and the larger it is, the more effective it can be against the satellite. This system is based on a missile, the RSM-214 Seraph, a VLS-launched missile that uses a traditional blast-fragmentation warhead to put some 18,475 depleted-Uranium spheres in front of the satellite, moving at a rate in excess of 8,000 miles per hour. It is similar to a shotgun, in terms of spread and pattern, which would, effectively, pepper the satellite with as many as 18,475 holes, causing it not only to explode but also burn up from re-entry as its structural integrity collapsed. The RSM-214A Seraph Block I offers a very powerful system, with a significant range. Satellites will be travelling as fast as 5 miles per second, meaning that the missile has to be in place quickly, very quickly. The missile, which relies on four stages, sits as tall as 21.50 feet, with a 6.00 booster attached. It has a 22.00 inch diameter and a 38.00 inch wingspan. Weighing 7,600 pounds with its 2,600 pound booster, the missile ascends through four stages throughout its flight. The first stage is the boost phase, which sees the missile ascending to 120,000 feet by itself, with its booster. After this, the booster drops off and the ascension stage begins, which brings the missile to the propper altitude to take out the LEO satellite. When the missile comes within 12.00 to 60.00 miles of the target, the intercept stage takes effect, which is final maneuvering. The intercept phase is followed almost instantaneously afterwards, which sees the detonation of the warhead and the shotgun pattern, which is put out before the satellite, causing a closure velocity of no less than 26,000 miles per hour, which, even if 1/10th of the projectiles impact, will cause the satellite to explode or crash down towards Earth. The Seraph is a very powerful missile, which enables it a maximum kinetic range of 400 miles, the 40 of which it takes to get up to 120,000 feet. It has a maximum ceiling of 800 miles, which puts it into MEO as far as its maximums. The missile itself has a maximum velocity of Mach 10.5 or 7,785 miles per hour. Guidance for the missile is provided throughout its flight by a datalink from the ship with a terminal imaging infrared seeker or millimetric wave radar, which can detect the target in the event that the datalink is cut off. In addition, it allows the ship to fire multiple missiles at multiple targets.
For self-defense against aircraft, the ship carries the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, the Standard SM-4 missile, the Crow missile, and the Rolling Airframe Missile. The RAM couples with the Phalanx as CIWS as well. The ship carries a total of 8 Phalanx CIWS units and 6 RAM units with 126 missiles. Against ships, the Abaddon can carry the AMESM in quad-launchers, the Imsdal, the Tomahawk, the Relic, or the Harpoon II missile. Finally, it can carry up to 36 torpedoes, with a maximum diameter of 324 millimeters.
Standard loadout includes the MIRACL, 64 RSM-214A Serpah missiles, 36 RGM-203 Imsdal missiles, 24 RGM-193 Relic missiles, 24 RIM-188 Crow missiles, 60 RIM-185 Standard SM-4ER missiles, and 192 RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles in its 256 VLS cells, 96 of which were aft and 160 of which were forward. In its 6 quad-launchers it can carry 24 RGM-205 AMESM missiles, the 8 Phalanx CIWS units, the 6 RAM launchers, and 36 Mark 50 MOD 2 Barracuda torpedoes.
At a cost of $2.75 billion (§ 1.48 billion) each, the navy had plans for up to 24 hulls, four of which would always be at sea, at various positions, escorted by two submarines each. Plans were already made to have them escorted by a Hunter class SSN and a Scythe Flight II class SSN, both of which would always remain within detection range of the vessel, as hard as that would be with its SONAR masking systems.
The one sitting in the Labrador Sea was escorted by a pair of Hunter SSNs, one sitting twelve nautical miles to its 280° bearing and the other to its 16° bearing, about fifteen nautical miles out, both at a depth of 250 feet. The test would be a double fold test, the first to use the MIRACL laser against a satellite moving at an altitude of 228 miles and a speed of 17,890 miles per hour. The second test would be of the Seraph against a satellite at an altitude of 420 miles moving at the same speed. Both were decommissioned communications satellites that would otherwise be dropped into the atmosphere and caused to burn up by the friction of re-entry, rendering them useless over either the Indian or Pacific Oceans.
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As the time clock ticked down, lower and lower and lower, the satellites were tracked, other objects filtered, and targetting systems set. In the CIC of the Abaddon, the panels were lit up left and right and everyone was paying close attention. The missile was prepped and ready, powered up, target locked, and VLS door closed still. "Fire One!" The command issued and immediately, on the panel, the operator pushed the fire button. Instantly, the VLS door shot backwards and slammed down, opened with full force. For a hint of a second, the tube was silent. Then, a blast of energy in terms of sound and light erupted out of the tube as the missile's booster ignited. Instantly, the missile shot out of the tube, fire and roaring following closely behind it. Smoke filled the tube and the deck as the missile arched upwards.
"We have lift-off. Booster at maximum throttle. Ascent is 3,000 feet per mile. Five miles downrange, altitude 15,000. Eight miles downrange, altitude, 24,000. We have tube door shut. Twelve miles downrange, altitude 36,000. Twenty miles downrange, altitude 60,000." They kept shouting out updates as the missile ascended, picking up speed as the booster roared the missile upwards. At 120,000 feet, the booster would separate. "We have separation in five...four...three...two...one...go...Forty miles downrange, altitude 120,000 feet. Ascent phase begin. Missile will climb to 400 miles." Quickly, the missile tore upwards, climbing towards an altitude of 400 miles, where the system leveled off and separated again. The missile began to maneuver itself towards the incoming satellite, with a closure rate of 25,890 miles per hour. Then, at 49 miles from the satellite, it detonated, putting its shotgun pattern into effect, each of the spheres moving at nearly 12,000 miles per hour, making the closure rate almost 30,000 miles per hour, so fast that nothing could manuever that fast. The pattern spread was thousands of feet across and the satellite crashed right into the spheres with such force that it did explode, before being pelted with at least half of the spheres. The word success flew through the Emperor's office and the CIC and now came the second phase.
The second satellite moved towards the ship along its flight path, at a much lower altitude. The laser projector was already deployed and the satellite tracked. The laser had a maximum range of infinity but the less distance it had to go the more powerful it could be, especially against a satellite. It was trained in on the main solar converter within the satellite, which transferred the solar energy recieved from its arrays to actual working power. It was estimated that it would take 4 seconds to burn through the hull and reach the converter and, at maximum, another 8 seconds to cause it to explode. At 100 miles, they had 20 seconds to operate and they did, firing the beam at such a range. It took slightly longer to tear through the satellite and cause it to overheat and explode, approximately 15.82 seconds in total, but the satellite, much like the other, exploded in fury and flames all over the atmosphere. Barely visible from the ground, highly powerful cameras picked up everything and recorded it.
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Floating some 237.50 miles southwest of Godthåb, at a slow 3 knots, was the lead ship of the Abaddon class, the newest ship class of the Imperial Layartebian Navy. The Labrador Sea was dark, choppy, and cold. The seas went as deep at 11,100 feet and stretched 621 miles at its widest point. It was the summer now and the sea wasn't covered with ice but it was, by all means, no where near warm. This would be the perfect place to test the Abaddon. Weather wasn't favorable, which made the test even more important.
The Abaddon had been concieved from the Sehnsucht class but with a vastly different role. The Sehnsucht was nothing more than a massive spy vessel, that gathered intelligence by means of signals (SIGINT). Whilst the Sehnsucht could offensively jam and intercept aircraft, satellits, ground sites, and so on and so fourth, it was more of an intelligence gathering ship than anything else. It proved undefeatable in such operations. However, the necessity for a strict tracking ship was necessary. The Abaddon would fill a multitude of roles, mainly revolving around tracking. Its primary role would be as a tracking ship with secondary roles as an anti-satellite platform and missile defense. It would have very limited roles in both command and SIGINT operations as well. Due to its highly advanced nature, it would never be sailing with the fleet but rather on its own, being escorted by, at minimum, two attack submarines, just like its sister, the Sehnsucht.
The Abaddon was a large ship at that, though not nearly as large as the Sehnsucht. It was 750.00 feet long, with a 96.00 foot beam, and a draft of 22.00 feet. Displacing 48,000 tons, the Abaddon was powered by two pebblebed nuclear reactors, designated the SNR-7. Each reactor could put out a maximum of 200 megawatts, which translated to 268,204 shaft horsepower. Each reactor would be putting out 500,000 shaft horsepower for the Abaddon. Fueled by Thorium-232, the reactors didn't need refueling for 67 years and with provisions stored on the ship, they could sit out at sea for 180 days before having to return to port. The Sehnsucht had a similar endurance as well but used different reactors, enabling it to refuel once every 80 years. Because of this power, the Abaddon was driven by three screws, fed from six generators, and could move at a maximum speed of 35 knots, though 15 knots was considered tactical silent. The reactors are organized in such a way that enables them both to be run when high speed is necessary; however, when normal speed is required, the ship can run off a single reactor and use the other to power its weapons and sensor systems.
Much like the Sehnsucht class, the Abaddon could carry up to four aircraft, with a maximum weight of 25,000 pounds. However, due to space, it would only carry two helicopters and two UAVs. For UAVs, they would carry the RQ-8 Fire Scout, which could enable them extreme over-the-horizon targetting, against ships or for command and SIGINT. As far as helicopters went, it could carry a pair of SH-97 Serpent helicopters, although it was not limited to just the SH-97. The ship would be crewed by 280 sailors, 18 of them officers. As far as its sensor suite went, it carried the same as the Sehnsucht, the AN/SPY-4H AODSSS, the most powerful and classified version of the AODSSS. As far as other systems went, the ship carried the same offensive/defensive systems as the Sehnsucht, which enabled it to have SONAR masking systems, satellite defeat/jamming systems, radar jamming/defeat systems, and thermal masking systems. It also carried an advanced upper atmosphere suite, which enabled it to track satellites and other objects throughout LEO, which extended from 124 - 726 miles above the surface of the Earth. It had limited capabilities into the next area, which was between 726 and 21,925.7 miles, although it could not stretch up to the apex altitude of Medium Earth Orbit.
For weapons, the Abaddon had various types of defenses. Its primary armament was for use against satellites and was a two-tiered system. The first was a much less conventional system, which relied on a laser, called the Mid-Infrared Advance Chemical Laser (MIRACL). Based on the highly advanced design seen already in use since the mid-1980s, the MIRACL remains, to date, the highest average power laser in service with the (real-life United States). There have been more than 150 lasing tests and over 3,000 seconds of lase time during the last decade alone from this laser, which could achieve a maximum lasing duration of 70 seconds, with a range minimum of a quarter mile and a maximum range of infinity. The Abaddon carries enough charges for up to 200 shots before having to recharge the laser system. Recharging can take up to several days. The beam of the laser is invisible to the naked eye. The MIRACL works through a very intricate system. The satellite is first identified by a very high-powered camera, which can provide a full cross-section of the satellite. From there, the laser can be trained in on an area such as the power source, if it were nuclear powered, the solar array sources or panels, its own weapon and camera systems, or even its hull. The laser can disable the satellite in any of three ways. The first and easiest way would be to target the power source or weapon systems of the satellite, thereby causing an explosion. The second, which is much more difficult, would be to deform the hull of the satellite, causing its orbit to quickly degrade, burning up in the atmosphere upon re-entry. The last would be to disable the actual systems of the satellite, namely its cameras and sensors, which would, usually, keep the the satellite in orbit, forcing either a repair missile or the operators to force re-entry, burning up the satellite. The MIRACL system, while maximized for efficiency against satellites could also prove a limited role against ballistic missiles travelling towards their targets. The laser would operate in much the same way, either deforming the actual missile and causing it to burn up from friction or by overheating the propellant or warhead, causing the missile to explode in-flight.
The second tier for attacking satellites comes in a far more conventional form, which uses pure kinetics against the satellite. Normally, satellites travelling in LEO are moving at a speed of 17,895 miles per hour, which is a phenomenal amount of speed in itself, providing a significant amount of kinetic energy. Simply putting something in its direction, moving towards it at even 1 mile per hour, would make a closure rate of 17,896 miles per hour, devestating to the satellite. However, the faster the weapon moves and the larger it is, the more effective it can be against the satellite. This system is based on a missile, the RSM-214 Seraph, a VLS-launched missile that uses a traditional blast-fragmentation warhead to put some 18,475 depleted-Uranium spheres in front of the satellite, moving at a rate in excess of 8,000 miles per hour. It is similar to a shotgun, in terms of spread and pattern, which would, effectively, pepper the satellite with as many as 18,475 holes, causing it not only to explode but also burn up from re-entry as its structural integrity collapsed. The RSM-214A Seraph Block I offers a very powerful system, with a significant range. Satellites will be travelling as fast as 5 miles per second, meaning that the missile has to be in place quickly, very quickly. The missile, which relies on four stages, sits as tall as 21.50 feet, with a 6.00 booster attached. It has a 22.00 inch diameter and a 38.00 inch wingspan. Weighing 7,600 pounds with its 2,600 pound booster, the missile ascends through four stages throughout its flight. The first stage is the boost phase, which sees the missile ascending to 120,000 feet by itself, with its booster. After this, the booster drops off and the ascension stage begins, which brings the missile to the propper altitude to take out the LEO satellite. When the missile comes within 12.00 to 60.00 miles of the target, the intercept stage takes effect, which is final maneuvering. The intercept phase is followed almost instantaneously afterwards, which sees the detonation of the warhead and the shotgun pattern, which is put out before the satellite, causing a closure velocity of no less than 26,000 miles per hour, which, even if 1/10th of the projectiles impact, will cause the satellite to explode or crash down towards Earth. The Seraph is a very powerful missile, which enables it a maximum kinetic range of 400 miles, the 40 of which it takes to get up to 120,000 feet. It has a maximum ceiling of 800 miles, which puts it into MEO as far as its maximums. The missile itself has a maximum velocity of Mach 10.5 or 7,785 miles per hour. Guidance for the missile is provided throughout its flight by a datalink from the ship with a terminal imaging infrared seeker or millimetric wave radar, which can detect the target in the event that the datalink is cut off. In addition, it allows the ship to fire multiple missiles at multiple targets.
For self-defense against aircraft, the ship carries the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, the Standard SM-4 missile, the Crow missile, and the Rolling Airframe Missile. The RAM couples with the Phalanx as CIWS as well. The ship carries a total of 8 Phalanx CIWS units and 6 RAM units with 126 missiles. Against ships, the Abaddon can carry the AMESM in quad-launchers, the Imsdal, the Tomahawk, the Relic, or the Harpoon II missile. Finally, it can carry up to 36 torpedoes, with a maximum diameter of 324 millimeters.
Standard loadout includes the MIRACL, 64 RSM-214A Serpah missiles, 36 RGM-203 Imsdal missiles, 24 RGM-193 Relic missiles, 24 RIM-188 Crow missiles, 60 RIM-185 Standard SM-4ER missiles, and 192 RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles in its 256 VLS cells, 96 of which were aft and 160 of which were forward. In its 6 quad-launchers it can carry 24 RGM-205 AMESM missiles, the 8 Phalanx CIWS units, the 6 RAM launchers, and 36 Mark 50 MOD 2 Barracuda torpedoes.
At a cost of $2.75 billion (§ 1.48 billion) each, the navy had plans for up to 24 hulls, four of which would always be at sea, at various positions, escorted by two submarines each. Plans were already made to have them escorted by a Hunter class SSN and a Scythe Flight II class SSN, both of which would always remain within detection range of the vessel, as hard as that would be with its SONAR masking systems.
The one sitting in the Labrador Sea was escorted by a pair of Hunter SSNs, one sitting twelve nautical miles to its 280° bearing and the other to its 16° bearing, about fifteen nautical miles out, both at a depth of 250 feet. The test would be a double fold test, the first to use the MIRACL laser against a satellite moving at an altitude of 228 miles and a speed of 17,890 miles per hour. The second test would be of the Seraph against a satellite at an altitude of 420 miles moving at the same speed. Both were decommissioned communications satellites that would otherwise be dropped into the atmosphere and caused to burn up by the friction of re-entry, rendering them useless over either the Indian or Pacific Oceans.
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As the time clock ticked down, lower and lower and lower, the satellites were tracked, other objects filtered, and targetting systems set. In the CIC of the Abaddon, the panels were lit up left and right and everyone was paying close attention. The missile was prepped and ready, powered up, target locked, and VLS door closed still. "Fire One!" The command issued and immediately, on the panel, the operator pushed the fire button. Instantly, the VLS door shot backwards and slammed down, opened with full force. For a hint of a second, the tube was silent. Then, a blast of energy in terms of sound and light erupted out of the tube as the missile's booster ignited. Instantly, the missile shot out of the tube, fire and roaring following closely behind it. Smoke filled the tube and the deck as the missile arched upwards.
"We have lift-off. Booster at maximum throttle. Ascent is 3,000 feet per mile. Five miles downrange, altitude 15,000. Eight miles downrange, altitude, 24,000. We have tube door shut. Twelve miles downrange, altitude 36,000. Twenty miles downrange, altitude 60,000." They kept shouting out updates as the missile ascended, picking up speed as the booster roared the missile upwards. At 120,000 feet, the booster would separate. "We have separation in five...four...three...two...one...go...Forty miles downrange, altitude 120,000 feet. Ascent phase begin. Missile will climb to 400 miles." Quickly, the missile tore upwards, climbing towards an altitude of 400 miles, where the system leveled off and separated again. The missile began to maneuver itself towards the incoming satellite, with a closure rate of 25,890 miles per hour. Then, at 49 miles from the satellite, it detonated, putting its shotgun pattern into effect, each of the spheres moving at nearly 12,000 miles per hour, making the closure rate almost 30,000 miles per hour, so fast that nothing could manuever that fast. The pattern spread was thousands of feet across and the satellite crashed right into the spheres with such force that it did explode, before being pelted with at least half of the spheres. The word success flew through the Emperor's office and the CIC and now came the second phase.
The second satellite moved towards the ship along its flight path, at a much lower altitude. The laser projector was already deployed and the satellite tracked. The laser had a maximum range of infinity but the less distance it had to go the more powerful it could be, especially against a satellite. It was trained in on the main solar converter within the satellite, which transferred the solar energy recieved from its arrays to actual working power. It was estimated that it would take 4 seconds to burn through the hull and reach the converter and, at maximum, another 8 seconds to cause it to explode. At 100 miles, they had 20 seconds to operate and they did, firing the beam at such a range. It took slightly longer to tear through the satellite and cause it to overheat and explode, approximately 15.82 seconds in total, but the satellite, much like the other, exploded in fury and flames all over the atmosphere. Barely visible from the ground, highly powerful cameras picked up everything and recorded it.
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