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Pentagon to shoot down broken spy satellite
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| 02-14-2008
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Posted on 02/14/2008 9:07:45 AM PST by montag813
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
IM transcript:
PutinKremlin3: d00d! u shot my sat!
WThePrez: p0wn3d! LOL
PutinKremlin3:u r teh suq
WThePrez: all ur sats are belong to us
To: saganite
>Anybody who puts a functioning satellite in orbit would be my first guess but I could be wrong
Don't worry -- Freepers
always put their satellites
in high orbit and
design their birds with
active defense protocols . . .
The forum is safe.
To: rhombus
Everything on Earth orbit will come down sooner or later.
43
posted on
02/14/2008 9:33:18 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
To: YouGoTexasGirl
Time for someone to invent a new space vacuum cleaner!!I don't know how to tell you this, but vacuum cleaners don't work in a vacuum.
44
posted on
02/14/2008 9:33:22 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: nascarnation
Nope. Venezuelans perhaps.
45
posted on
02/14/2008 9:35:21 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: stylin19a
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, because the information released was Sensitive Compartmented Information.
46
posted on
02/14/2008 9:35:37 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: saganite
Maybe we should just hire the Chinese to shoot down the broken satilite...you know jobs Americans wont do.
47
posted on
02/14/2008 9:38:41 AM PST
by
svcw
(The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
To: montag813
Since it’s our money paying for this, we need good, cool video.
48
posted on
02/14/2008 9:38:43 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
To: YouGoTexasGirl
Time for someone to invent a new space vacuum cleaner!!I don't think a vacuum cleaner would work in a vacuum. But I was just thinking about that very thing -- how about several satellites sweeping around the earth with big aerogel panels on the front? That should capture the smaller particles.
To: ReignOfError
To: montag813
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posted on
02/14/2008 9:41:04 AM PST
by
RDTF
(kill the terrorists, punch the hippies)
To: L,TOWM
Right out of a Tom Clancy novel.Except that in Red Storm Rising, it was a modified air intercept missile fired from a fighter, an F18, IIRC.
To: rellimpank
It isnt the fuel, its the payload
To: montag813
"Modified SM-3 missiles will be used from a destroyer and cruiser in the Pacific."
Ha! I bet they use a spark in the center fuel tank...
54
posted on
02/14/2008 9:43:32 AM PST
by
Ignatz
( RENT THIS SPACE!)
To: montag813
I’m of the opinion that they should (should have):
- retrieved the satellite via a Shuttle mission
- placed rocket motors to the satellites to force either a controlled re-entry or send it to the sun.
- shoot it down upon re-entry
To: BurbankKarl
How do these satellites normally return to Earth?
56
posted on
02/14/2008 9:46:23 AM PST
by
Brian S. Fitzgerald
("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
To: Charles Martel
Depends on when and where they hit it. If they wait until the satellite is low enough that it's beginning to contact the atmosphere, then most of the little pieces resulting from a missile strike will burn up pretty quickly.I would think -- and I admit I'm no physicist -- that it would depend in what direction it's hit. If it's hit directly from below, that might blow the debris back upward. But if it's hit obliquely from behind -- ideally behind and above, it they can target the missile that precisely -- then it would drive the debris downward, where it will burn up in the atmosphere.
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
Wont this cause a debris cloud similar to the one the Chinese created, endangering the space station, etc.? Only of we shoot it down while it's still in orbit. If we fire when it's starting to bite into the atmosphere, all he pieces will deorbit too. Instead of one large object coming in, we get a meteor shower.
To: Ignatz
Ha! I bet they use a spark in the center fuel tank...LOL
To: saganite
“Didnt we get all perturbed because the Chinese shot a sattelite in orbit and created a lot of space junk?”
Yeah, but this is different.
It’s one of our spy satellites, and we don’t want it to crash in an “unfriendly” country such as russia or china where they’ll be able to glean info from it.
We also don’t want it to crash in the middle east since it carries radioactive materials that could end up being used in a dirty bomb.
And because of the radioactive materials onboard, we don’t exactly want it crashing in our backyard or crashing into someone’s house either.
The best option would be to blow it up.
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