[huldah1776]

“With the debris field so low, it will decay shortly and more completely” if you go to the link in post 17, china’s debris was still in space 11 months later. How short is shortly?

[plsvn]

“With the debris field so low, it will decay shortly and more completely” if you go to the link in post 17, china’s debris was still in space 11 months later. How short is shortly?

I think it's already been said the Chinese satellite was orbiting much higher than USA-193 will be when it's targeted. I bet the USA-193 debris lasts only weeks in orbit. Remember that Shuttle mission where a tether experiment went bad and a couple km long cord was left in orbit? That cord remained in orbit for not many weeks afterward, and presumably USA-193 will be in a lower orbit that the Shuttle was in at the time.

[Yo-Yo]

“With the debris field so low, it will decay shortly and more completely” if you go to the link in post 17, china’s debris was still in space 11 months later. How short is shortly?

If you read the link in post 17, you will have seen this:

"Updating the initial analysis by CSSI just after this event was first reported shows pieces in the debris cloud ranging from below 200 km in altitude up to almost 4,000 km"

4,000 km is just over 2,400 miles high. Stuff at that height will be around a long time. Nothing from this satellite, shot at from below 100 miles up, will make it anywhere near that height.