Chunks of Junk - China ASAT Test, Plus One Year

Live Science ^ | January 11th, 2008 | Leonard David

[Sawdring]

It has been one year since China took aim on its own nearly one-ton meteorological satellite by way of an anti-satellite (ASAT).

That January 11, 2007 target practice spewed out a huge cloud of clutter - debris that remains a troublesome problem for operating satellites, as well as the International Space Station. Odds are that somebody’s satellite is due for a whacking - if it hasn’t already taken place.

[glorgau]

Sounds like a great test case - get some lawyers looking for publicity to attach some Chinese government assets for damage caused by intentional negligence.

[Technocrat]

Well why not - their garbage forms monstrous vortices of trash floating in the Pacific, so now they can drop their turds in space and screw that up too.