Posted on 11/09/2015 11:58:39 AM PST by McGruff
China recently conducted a flight test of a new missile capable of knocking out U.S. satellites as part of Beijing's growing space warfare arsenal.
The test of a Dong Neng-3 exoatmospheric vehicle was carried out Oct. 30 from China's Korla Missile Test Complex in western China, said two defense officials familiar with reports of the test.
A Chinese press report also provided details of what was said to be a missile defense interceptor flight test carried out Nov. 1. Photos of the missile's contrails were posted online.
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China’s most disruptive ASAT test occurred in January 2007 when a direct ascent missile destroyed a Chinese weather satellite, creating tens of thousands of debris pieces that pose a continuing danger to both satellites and manned spacecraft, like the International Space Station.
Ah, the legacy of Bill Clinton still paying Chicoms dividends after all these years....
If it was you, you’re in a rare club. Hardly anyone showed concern when I first started doing it over twenty years ago.
That and illegal immigration were yawn moments back them.
Not for me...
You start tossing out debris like China is doing with these tests, and pretty soon you’ll have a zone so full of killer junk that we won’t be able to go into space.
I’m sure it dissipates over time, but that could take years.
Isn’t it funny we also just tested a missile.
Funny.
Centuries to millennia.
Not much in the way of atmospheric drag in space...
Yep.. He and Loral helped them get their gyroscopes crap together.
Last time the ChiComs tested an ASAT missile, we reprogrammed a deployed SM-3 and shot down a bum satellite of our own.
Gravitational pull puts a drag on it though doesn’t it?
If we’re talking about near earth orbit, 50-100 miles, don’t the items drop relatively quickly, a year or two?
I honestly don’t know.
Something to think about is that if you have a missile
that can target a satellite, it can also target a missile
you have sent up to capture a satellite.
Capturing one would tell you a lot more than blowing it
up.
12). How long will orbital debris remain in Earth orbit?
The higher the altitude, the longer the orbital debris will typically remain in Earth orbit. Debris left in orbits below 600 km normally fall back to Earth within several years. At altitudes of 800 km, the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades. Above 1,000 km, orbital debris will normally continue circling the Earth for a century or more.
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#12
More space debris questions:
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#top
Bill Clinton once admitted that he thinks the US shouldn’t be the only supper power. What a president, huh? I’m certain the hag will out do his treachery.
Duncan Hunter did: the guy who should have been the Republican nominee in 2008. Now America is such a piece of crap country that we’re better off if China takes us over.
Perhaps of interest.
600km : 372.823 miles
800km : 497.097 miles
1000km: 621.371 miles
The space station is 249 miles from earth.
Thanks.
12). How long will orbital debris remain in Earth orbit?
The higher the altitude, the longer the orbital debris will typically remain in Earth orbit. Debris left in orbits below 600 km normally fall back to Earth within several years. At altitudes of 800 km, the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades. Above 1,000 km, orbital debris will normally continue circling the Earth for a century or more.
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#12
More space debris questions:
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#top
600km : 372.823 miles
800km : 497.097 miles
1000km: 621.371 miles
The space station is 249 miles from earth.
You bet. Sorry to be repetitive.
This was all new to me and I didn’t want to leave you out.
Not a problem!
Bad news for geosynchronous communications satellites - 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi).
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