[MARKUSPRIME]

Thanks for overplaying your hand chicoms.Im sure all the military powers will now make counter measures against you. Thanks for the heads up. Morons.

[CarrotAndStick]

Ping.

[AngrySpud]

And send China the bill.

[Lokibob]

 

 ISS Height Profile

 

 

This plot shows the orbital height of the ISS over the last year. Clearly visible are the re-boosts which suddenly increase the height, and the gradual decay in between. The height is averaged over one orbit, and the gradual decrease is caused by atmospheric drag. As can be seen from the plot, the rate of descent is not constant and this variation is caused by changes in the density of the tenuous outer atmosphere due mainly to solar activity.

 

 

[TheBattman]

We need to send China a bill for the costs involved. STupid idiots. Must be a genetic link between the leadership in China and Kim-dum-Idiot of North Korea...

[No Truce With Kings]

Except it DID NOT happen.

According to Jim Oberg, the UPI article is based upon a poor translation of a Russian news piece. The Russian Novi piece stated something on the order of if debris from that test endangered the ISS, it would be moved with the move controlled from the Space Operations Center in Moscow. UPI mistranslated the "would be" as "was" -- which is an easy error to make, but is nevertheless, sloppy as all get out.

[aynrandfreak]

I doubt any major player is going to isolate China as a result of this. I wish it would happen, but Putin wants to keep China with him as much as possible.

[Don Corleone]

Law of unintended consequences???

[Thunder90]

Moscow obviously doesn't care about the test... (Russia has the most anti-sattellite weapons of any power)

[Unmarked Package]

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made a landmark visit to China in September last year. The trip was intended to begin a dialog between the two nations about future cooperation in space exploration.

I hope this reckless and aggressive action by China puts an end to any further contact between NASA and the Chinese. China should be shunned like the international space faring pariah that they are in the world.

For reference, the satellite that China exploded into hundreds of dangerous pieces was orbiting Earth at an altitude of 542 miles. There are currently more than 280 satellites orbiting Earth below an altitude of 542 miles, including the Hubble Space Telescope at an altitude of 352 miles.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Looks like the story is being pulled...google news had one line to a story

"ImediNews, Georgia - 3 hours ago MOSCOW (UPI) — US and Russian officials changed the International Space Station's orbit to keep it clear of debris from a satellite destroyed by China, ..." at

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/18518

But it's a different story when you get there.

[Moorings]

Actually nothing is going happen out of this except some initial hot air. Business and corporate interests will not let anything punitive against the chicoms.

[RightWhale]

China launched a nav satellite today and will be launching ten various satellites this year including a lunar orbiter.

[Pistolshot]

Actually, this is not a bad thing for China. They make a move by destroying a satelitte and see our reaction and capabilities.

All our sats have 'some' manuvering fuel, but if enough of this debris is in the same or similar orbit, and scattering....that fuel will be used up rather rapidly if the US has to continually manuver to avoid the debris. Soon, that fuel will be used up..and make them easier targets.

You have to admire the operational concept. This is a long term project.

Solution: Continued SDI R&D.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

How's the anti-meteorite system work?

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Names Ash Housewares]

I am livid about this.

We can track objects only so big. And these communist thug ass hats with penis size issues have to make our astronauts jobs even MORE dangerous??

Yet it is barely a mention in the news.

Maybe when they launch their next manned mission maybe we should do a test too and see how they like it?