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‘Space Superpower’ India to Kickstart Space War… Drill

August 4, 2019
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Article: July 25, 2019 (rt.com)

• In preparation for an attack from space, on July 25th and 26th the Indian Army conducted a military drill dubbed ‘IndSpaceEx’ to assess the ‘imminent threats’ India will meet should any armed conflict escalate beyond earth, and to identify key challenges and shortfalls if a conflict escalates to the space dimension. An unnamed Indian official also told the Times of India newspaper that India’s Institute of Technology will also work on ‘space war’ preparations.

• An unnamed Indian military official stated that one of the reasons for the drill is India’s aspiration to counter China’s superiority as a space power. “We cannot keep twiddling our thumbs while China zooms ahead. We cannot match China but must have capabilities to protect our space assets,” the official was cited as saying.

• In March 2019, India successfully tested its anti-satellite (A-Sat) interceptor missile to shoot down a Microsat-R satellite in low Earth orbit. That achievement prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to proclaim his nation a fourth “space superpower” after the US, Russia, and China.

• On July 22nd, India launched its Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and lunar module which is set to land on the Moon’s South Pole in weeks to come. That success was in fact met with praise by space rival China, announcing that China wants to team up with its Indian counterpart to explore the Moon. China’s own lunar mission, the Chang’e-4, successfully landed in the South Pole-Aitken basin in January 2019, and is currently exploring the Moon’s geology and performing biological experiments.

If any UFOs – or adversaries within Earth’s orbit – start behaving badly, India wants to be ready, as it prepares to take war drills literally to a new level… space.

The Indian Army has been ordered to prepare for any enemy, even one that can come from space. The ambitious two-day drill dubbed IndSpaceEx is set to assess the ‘imminent threats’ India will meet should any armed conflict escalate beyond earth.

The country’s first simulated space warfare exercise is starting on Thursday. But the drill was first mentioned back in March, when the country successfully tested its anti-satellite (A-Sat) interceptor missile to shoot down a Microsat-R satellite in low Earth orbit. That achievement prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to proclaim his nation a fourth “space superpower” after the US, Russia, and China.

“Modi said the A-Sat test in March was conducted to make India stronger and more secure, as well as further peace and harmony. In line with this vision, IndSpaceEx is being conducted to identify key challenges and shortfalls if a conflict escalates to the space dimension,” an unnamed official revealed on Wednesday, as cited by the Times of India newspaper. He added that India’s Institute of Technology will also work on ‘space war’ preparations.

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An ‘Anomaly’ the Size of Hawaii Is Buried Beneath the Moon’s Biggest Crater

June 14, 2019
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by Brandon Specktor June 10, 2019 (livescience.com)

• Professor Peter James and his colleagues at Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences compared maps of lunar topography with data collected by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission and found a mass of heavy metal lodged in the Moon’s mantle that is altering the moon’s gravitational field. The metallic mass is located underneath the moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin on the “dark side” of the Moon. The scientists published their finding April 5th in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

• The metallic mass ‘hundreds of miles’ under the Moon’s surface is calculated to be 2.4 quadrillion tons (US) in weight and 1,553 miles (2,500 kilometers) wide, five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii. The South Pole-Aitken crater is the biggest impact crater in the solar system. Its towering rim and deep basin are the Moon’s highest and lowest elevations.

• The researchers think that this underground anomaly could be the remnant of a heavy iron-nickel asteroid that blasted into the lunar core some 4 billion years ago. “We did the math and showed that a sufficiently dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the Moon’s mantle until the present day,” James said.

• China’s Chang’E-4 lander reached the far side of the moon earlier this year and began analyzing soil near the crater which may yield some answers.

• [Editor’s Note] A dispersed mass of metal underneath the mantle on the back side of the Moon? This certainly could be the remnant of a metallic asteroid that plunged into the Moon 4 billion years ago (wherever the Moon was back then). So this could have been the source of the metal used by the Moon’s ancient occupants to build out its underground complex of living space to create a haven for Mars/Malduk refugees some 500,000 years ago. These would be the over-sized rooms and tunnels within the Moon that have been reported by Corey Goode and David Wilcock’s insiders. It would also explain why the Apollo 12 astronauts said that the Moon “rang like a bell” when they crashed a lunar module onto the lunar surface. Modern explorers have reportedly utilized these ancient interior structures in order to rebuild Moon bases, including the Lunar Operations Command, on the dark side of the Moon.

Earth’s moon is hiding an enormous secret on its storied dark side. Deep below the moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin (the largest preserved impact crater anywhere in the solar system), researchers have detected a gargantuan “anomaly” of heavy metal lodged in the mantle that is apparently altering the moon’s gravitational field.

According to a study of the mysterious blob, published April 5 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the anomaly may be the heavy leftovers of the asteroid that crashed into the far side of the moon and created the giant South Pole-Aitken crater some 4 billion years ago. However, all that researchers can say for sure at this point is that the blob is big — likely weighing somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.4 quadrillion US tons (2.18 quintillion kilograms).

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground,” lead study author Peter James, assistant professor of planetary geophysics at Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences, said in a statement. “That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected.” [10 Interesting Places in the Solar System We’d Like to Visit]

James and his colleagues discovered the blob while comparing maps of lunar topography with data collected by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission — a 2011 experiment wherein two satellites orbited the moon in tandem, mapping the precise strength of its gravitational pull at various locations.

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