Richard Hoagland challenges NASA’s orbital mechanics claims, citing the 1981 Voyager 2 anomalies—thruster malfunctions, fuel depletion, and scan platform freezing—detailed in NASA’s Voyages to Saturn report (SP-451). He links these to the shuttle’s tethered satellite experiment, where a half-ton device accelerated at 81 ft/s before breaking free at 250 mph, defying expectations. The melted, taffy-like tether and unprogrammed thruster firings suggest unexplained hyperdimensional forces tied to Maxwell’s physics or Faraday’s rotating disk anomaly, with NASA suppressing critical data. Hoagland argues these incidents reveal a deeper pattern of suppressed knowledge about celestial energy interactions, questioning whether space agencies fully grasp the physics at play. [Automatically generated summary]
Back now to Richard Hoagland with this, an NBC update from Los Angeles.
According to Tina, I think it's Tina who sent this along, she says the space shuttle came within 50 feet of the satellite, according to NBC, and saw it floating in space dust.
Still not close enough to get it, though.
The satellite, she says, according to NBC, is expected to enter Earth's atmosphere within three weeks and burn up.
See, all right, let me start at the beginning on this.
The reason this physics is important is because ultimately, the physics I'm talking about is a physics that allows you to intervene in the terrestrial environment in a meaningfully positive way and affect change that will preserve the environment.
Well, hyperdimensional physics is actually 100 years old in terms of the current terrestrial civilization.
The founder of modern physics, James Clerk Maxwell, who was a physicist working in England about 150 years ago, a little over 100 years ago, who was a brilliant and wide spectrum kind of person.
I'll tell you how wide a spectrum guy he was.
He was primarily interested in electromagnetism, electricity, things like this.
But in his spare time, he also observed Saturn through a telescope and was the one to correctly propose that the spectral effects seen in the telescope were caused by a ring of separate particles, not a solid ring, but trillions and trillions of separate little bits of junk orbiting Saturn in a plane of particles.
So, you know, this shows you the breadth of his genius and his interest.
You know, it's like where are the giants of modern science?
They're all a century behind us.
He was trying to understand the universe.
He was trying to figure out what makes the universe work, Ting.
And in his conceptual model, which has now come down to it in extremely watered-down form, two or three equations called Maxwell's laws, which, by the way, govern radio transmission.
Without Maxwell, you and I would not be having this conversation tonight.
And if we did, no one would be listening to us except you and me in a room somewhere.
Maxwell is responsible for computers, for the internet, for electric lights, for television, for the computers on the shuttle.
I mean, for the whole modern world, without Maxwell, we'd be sitting in the dark, worried like our great ancestors, about what those little points of light were in the sky.
Maxwell was trying to develop the world's first unified field theory, meaning a set of physical equations, mathematical equations, that would unite the physical forces that science of the time had identified in a very powerful, unified view of how the universe works.
And there are many of us now who think he did it.
Einstein claimed to have attempted it and failed.
There are those of us who are becoming devotees of Maxwell's original 200-plus equation, written in a very special form called quaternions, which turn out to be geometric forms.
And everyone who knows me on the show knows that geometry has become one of my passions in the last 13 years.
Anyway, Maxwell, it turned out, had developed the first unified field theory of the world, of the universe.
And it was a multi-dimensional unified field theory.
Because he claimed, and his mathematics seems to prove, in the way that science can only prove something, which is to make predictions and see if they come true.
His equations basically said that the forces behind electromagnetism, you know, things like moving current in a wire, generators, radio waves, whatever, that these in fact have their start, their beginning, their origin in dimensions that are unseen to three-dimensional reality.
Geometric dimensions, which are unavailable to human senses until we die.
Because part of what is not known about Maxwell is that he was also a metaphysician.
Maxwell wrote poetry.
And we've got some.
And someday I will read to you on the air some of Maxwell, this physicist, this so-called sterile Victorian physicist, some of his poetry.
It sounds like some of the most wondrous New Age inspired intuitions about what happens when we go somewhere after we leave this mortal coil.
you know up down left right back and forth and there are are there not certain points on earth these but i i don't like to use the word of the war but uh...
where this energy may be or manipulated More efficiently.
More efficiently, and these points occur at a certain place on Earth, which is the
And mix them liberally with a few other mathematicians like Coxeter and others, that Bucky Fuller turns out to have been a big fan of, which you'll find in the references to Monuments of Mars.
And if you stir properly and look at them with the right kind of glasses, you wind up with a set of predictions that say that certain bizarre events that are inexplicable by current physics are very neatly and adequately explained and predicted by a hyperdimensional, multidimensional, Maxwellian classical physical view of the world.
When I say the world, I mean reality, which is from here to Alpha Centauri, here to Andromeda, here to the farthest galaxy we know.
The reason I'm focusing on the satellite is because it's very clear that NASA, this lead agency, you know, this cutting-edge kind of early warning system between the present and the future that we all think NASA should be and it used to be and is not now, that what happened to is it got bitten the other night by hyperdimensional physics.
And none of the physicists and none of the engineers who created this experiment or who are now trying to figure out what went wrong have a clue to what really occurred to the shuttle that night and almost, but for the grace of, you know, this lightning rod, which was the tether itself, killed seven astronauts.
I mean, this is dangerous stuff to play around with if you don't know what you're doing.
When the night Voyager 2, little unmanned Voyager, was flying by the planet Saturn, a billion miles from the sun, and I happened to be at the Jeff Propulsion Laboratory with a bunch of other scientists and space groupies and science writers and all that, in the von Karman Auditorium at the wee dawn hours just after midnight on August 26, 1981, late summer.
Voyager was speeding past Saturn through the ring plane and was scheduled to take a series of stunning close-ups of some of the inner moons around Saturn and beam them back to Earth.
At that moment, as it came out from behind Saturn and arrowed down through the ring plane, the same ring plane that Maxwell had measured a century plus before, in an incredibly ironic twist of fate in science and history, something reached out from Saturn, some remarkable force, and created all kinds of havoc on the Voyager 2 spacecraft that night.
And in the press releases that we have written and published around the world, that we have uploaded to your website through your email on AOL, and which have been posted on many other internet sites around the world and sent out to all the news media over the last several days from the Mars mission,
we describe in NASA's own words, in its own history, documentation of the Voyager 2 mission to Saturn, the weirdnesses, the strange computer malfunctions, the unexplained thruster firings, the depleted fuel.
All of these events occurred at Saturn that night, 15 years ago, to a little spacecraft called Voyager 2.
And the reason is that that night, Voyager 2, in our model, flew through the major, extraordinary, massive, hyperdimensional environment of the second largest planet in the solar system.
And what NASA unwittingly did, by creating a 12-mile satellite, you know, shuttle and tethered satellite connected by a wire, 12 miles long, they created a much bigger collector in Earth orbit for the same kind of physics and processes and forces that affected Voyager 2 all by itself at Saturn 15 years ago.
If you look at the numbers, the physical effects on an object in space are proportional to a quantity we call angular momentum.
If I'm a little spacecraft flying by a massive, rapidly spinning planet like Saturn, or I'm a big spacecraft 12 miles wide, you know, because that's really the size spacecraft that NASA created the other night.
If that cord had not severed, if the massive electrical charge that leaped across and fried that tether had not broken it like a lightning rod, the shuttle itself could have been toast.
Let's describe the mechanics of this for people who don't know anything about celestial mechanics.
You have a shuttle, which is like an airplane, about the size of a DC-9.
It's in orbit 185 miles around the Earth, slightly inclined to the equator, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour.
It deploys out of this 65-foot-long payload bay a Tinker Toy Tower that rises up 15 or 20 feet.
Up through that tower, like a fishing line, is spooled on a five-foot, you know, connected to a five-foot sphere, looking like a huge beach ball painted white.
It's a tethered satellite, a half-ton tethered satellite.
And it slowly played out.
You know, the fishing line is unrealed.
The tether itself is this one-tenth of an inch copper wire coated with various layers of plastic, Kevlar and nylon and mylar and whatever.
In other words, it could, if you unspooled all 12 miles on the Earth and dangled it from a 747 under one gravity, it could have maintained its own weight and then sunk with a good margin.
The actual force on the tether, and I am indebted to some of our colleagues, particularly Dr. Bruce DePalma, whose name I'm going to mention a couple, three times tonight, for working out these equations for me.
The second example, which is the far-out one, is the Moon.
The Moon is 250,000 miles away.
It takes one month to go around the Earth.
It moves only 2,000 miles per hour.
The other satellites, the so-called geosynchronous satellites, they are at about 22,300.
They move at about 6,000 miles per hour, and their motion around the Earth takes 24 hours, which of course is the rate at which the Earth rotates, which means they appear to hang motionless, but in fact they're moving around the Earth in orbit at 6,000 miles per hour, and it takes them one day to go around once in one complete circle.
So the basic rule of thumb here is the farther up you are, the slower you're going to move in orbit around the Earth.
Now the 12 miles connecting, you know, separating the shuttle and the tethered, tether satellite, meant that the satellite would want to move slower, right?
So what happens is it's kind of a happy medium, and there's some kind of averaging going on.
So there's going to be a force in the tether, all right?
The shuttle is pulling the satellite along, you know, faster than its higher orbit would normally allow, and the tether satellite is slowing the shuttle down a little bit so it's moving a little slower at that 12-mile altitude than the lower orbit would allow.
So if anybody's gone deep sea fishing, you know that you put a high pound test line because if you get a shark or a tuna or whatever and it jumps, you don't want the line to break.
So when you look at the close-ups, now I have freeze framed and grabbed frames from the video and put them into Photoshop and other programs and I've zoomed in and enlarged and enhanced.
This tether looks like it had fried and pulled apart like taffy.
All right?
Meaning it melted and under the 24 pounds, you know, tell you what, everybody does an experiment now.
You get a candle out and you get a plastic soda straw and you put the soda straw so that the candle is in the middle of it and when it's beginning to melt, you pull the soda straw apart.
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My guest is Richard C. Hogwood, Ingstrom Science Award winner, was science advisor Walter Cronkite, did some work for NASA.
He's a guy who knows about the satellite, now lost in space.
Sort of.
A victim, he believes, of hyperdimensional physics.
In other words, he's telling us what really happened.
All right, as a way of continuing now, Art, something nobody has yet mentioned is as of 1125 Hawaii time, that's where this is coming from, February 28th, the speed of the satellite increased 81 feet per second right before the satellite broke free.
Why would it suddenly do that if it were being fed out or reeled in to keep tension?
Normally, at the NASA page for current shuttle flights, they have detailed photos and video feeds of Operations Buck.
Only three stills are shown regarding the tether project, and only one has a view of the satellite after it broke free.
Well, let me leap to the kind of interesting thing that Bruce DePalma sent me tonight.
I had Bruce working for the last two or three days on some alternative, how should I say, explanations for what the experiment was really designed to do.
Not even, you know, in terms of what happened to it, but what it really was designed to do.
You know, once the space agency or any government agency lies to you, and you can prove they've lied to you over and over again, as we now know through the Mars data, the moon data, and all that, you get to, you begin to wonder about everything.
You begin to wonder about even the most innocuous and apparently innocently sounding experiments.
And you begin to see a pattern of things that don't quite add up.
And I was not going to mention this until the end of our time together.
But according to Dr. DePalma, first of all, let me tell you who Dr. DePalma is.
Bruce DePalma is the inventor of the N machine, a former MIT and Harvard physicist who is now operating his own laboratory in New Zealand because he felt that he couldn't really continue these experiments on U.S. soil.
He has been investigating a technology based on the work of Michael Faraday.
Michael Faraday is another one of those giants along with James Clerk Maxwell to whom we owe the modern world.
It was Michael Faraday in 1837 who basically built the world's first electric generator, a DC generator.
And it is that technology that we are going to invoke later in the evening in terms of explaining what may have happened to this satellite.
Because what Faraday found, unlike what you are taught in every textbook everywhere in the world, from MIT to Milan, from Moscow to Minsk, is that you do not need to have the field of a magnet rotating relative to a conductor, a wire, in order to generate an electric current.
What Faraday found and what De Palma has spent 25 years trying to figure out and put to use as a practical power generation technology for so-called free energy.
And in fact, it's a politically loaded term because things in the society that Are free, we do not value.
So there's a whole other dimension to that that we could get into, which I will not.
I will avoid the sidetracks here.
The point is that what Faraday found is that if you have a wire and you have a magnet and you rotate the magnet and the wire together, you still get a current.
Oh, it's a stunning puzzle, a major anomaly in physics, both classical and relativistic physics, that no one has adequately explained.
And there have been some extremely sophisticated experiments, some of them carried about by the Department of Defense in Rome, New York, and other places, to try to understand why the Faraday rotating disk in a magnetic field generates a current.
Because every textbook in the world, every physics text, every high school, every college course says you have to have relative motion between the wire and the field to get a current.
The whole basis of this so-called tethered satellite experiment was that the Earth is basically rotating at 1,000 miles an hour, right?
You can kind of model the Earth's magnetic field as a planet with a bar magnet stuck in the middle of it, so that you've got a North Pole and a South Magnetic Pole, right?
If I move a conductor in that magnetic field, says classical physics theory, I should get an electrical current.
And so the idea of trailing a 12-mile piece of wire between the shuttle and a satellite above it through the Earth's magnetic field at 17,000 miles an hour relative speed, all right, was designed to produce a voltage in this wire and generate a current.
They expected about as much energy as would be used by a hair dryer, all right?
A kind of a small hair dryer at that.
Now, we are told that this experiment was designed to somehow demonstrate and prove and explore a practical means of generating electricity in space.
Now, I got to tell you, and De Palma will back me up, that it makes absolutely no sense at all to imagine putting out satellites and wires and all the print stickety things that entails to generate less electricity than is used by your computer.
I mean, several hundred watts is nothing in space.
Solar panels or nuclear power or whatever is much more efficient and much less dangerous.
And the reason that the shuttle can't go and get the satellite now and bring it home so we can find out what happened to it.
They're worried that if they got close to it, this wire would wrap itself around the shuttle, mummify it, and they basically couldn't get the payload bay doors closed, and they couldn't come home.
The reason is that, well, it depends on what it did after it cut loose, and that has to do back to the thrusters and the depleted fuel, you know, the nitrogen and all that.
Apparently, it accelerated by its lonesome after it left the shuttle.
You know, normally you'd think that it would be like a slingshot, where if I'm, you know, twirling a stone around and I let go of the rope, the stone will fly off at a tangent at a given velocity.
It went through the ring plane of Saturn and the plasma wave experiment from Fred Scarf, dear departed Fred Scarf, who was one of the most lyrical and imaginative scientists in NASA, worked for TRW, was the principal investigator on the plasma wave experiment.
What he did was he would convert his sensor readings into audio recordings so you could hear them.
Let me read to you, you know, since we're skipping around, let me read to you from the official mission history published by NASA back in 1982, which is on your board, by the way.
If people want to read all this stuff, you know, the description of what happened to the satellites, the physics, and everything, there are two releases that are going to be on ARTS website and are all over the world on the internet.
Simply use my name as a way to find them, or the Mars mission, or tethered satellite, or any combination of those keywords.
We had to go through AOL to your email, but you should be able to put them on the, yeah.
Let me read to you from NASA's own history.
August 26, 1981.
As the Voyager spacecraft re-emerged from behind Saturn at 11.58 p.m., this is now 15 years ago, its radio signals were received at the Deep Space Network Station in Australia and transmitted directly to JPL.
That's the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Mission managers, I'm still quoting from this official mission SP, the SP number, by the way, if you want to get this in your library and read about it, is, let's see, where am I here?
Published in NASA headquarters in 1982, called Voyages to Saturn by Dr. David Morrison.
It's the official NASA record of the Voyager missions.
Anyway, reading from Morrison.
This is Morrison's own words.
Mission managers and engineers watched the signal carefully to make sure all went well.
Their initial delight at the reacquisition of signal from behind Saturn quickly turned to worry and despair.
The telemetry signals, remember it takes you 45 minutes to get a radio signal back from Saturn a billion miles away, the telemetry signals were not normal, and several instruments aboard the spacecraft showed unexplained and peculiar transmissions.
Engineering data indicated that near ring plane crossing, the small control thrusters on the spacecraft had made several unprogrammed and unexpected firings.
Worst of all, the scanned platform, with its cameras and spectrometers, was not pointed where it was supposed to be.
As more engineering data from Voyager accumulated, it became evident that the scanned platform had frozen in its back and forth or azimuth motion.
Unfortunately, it had stopped in a place where sensitive instruments could be damaged by sunlight.
Thus, at about 2 a.m. on August 27th, instructions were transmitted to move the scanned platform to a safe position.
By 6 a.m., it was apparent that the spacecraft had responded and that the initial problems with the other systems had apparently repaired themselves, leaving only the scanned platform to be dealt with.
At 9 a.m., the critical playback from the onboard tape recorder began, but even after the tape recordings had been received, it was still not evident how the failure had occurred.
It did not appear to be a discrete event associated with the ring plane, but rather a progressive degradation of the capability of the scan platform to move as directed.
Notice now that Morrison is focused totally on the scan platform and seems to have forgotten all the other weirdnesses on the spacecraft.