[Tallguy]

Aerospace Corp., a California-based research organization that regularly advises the Defense Department, has assembled some basic data about falling satellites and what can be done about them. "For an orbiting object, shooting it down actually breaks the object into many pieces, some of which could be hazardous to other satellites," says the Aerospace Corp. "Many of the fragments will survive re-entry, but be spread over a much larger area. The pros and cons for a specific case would need to be examined."

Translation: peel us off $10 million & we'll do a quickie 'study' for ya with a really nifty Power Point presentation.

[r9etb]

Translation: peel us off $10 million & we'll do a quickie 'study' for ya with a really nifty Power Point presentation.

LOL! Not all that far off ... but actually, it's just another application of the immutable First Law of Space Stuff: "it depends."