China Tests Anti-Satellite Missile

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 11/9/2015 | Bill Gertz

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Paid for with the stupidity that is referred to as “free trade”, no doubt.

[DoughtyOne]

That’s another useful resource. Thank you.

[bgill]

Tit for tat.

One-upmanship.

If only they’d hold off until after Jan. 2016.

[DoughtyOne]

I downloaded the entire book for further review.

[McGruff]

All we need is Howard Hughes to build one of these.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, I won’t knock it until they try it. = :^)

[McGruff]

Perhaps the most high-profile incident occurred in Feb. 2009 when an Iridium satellite smashed into a defunct Russian satellite above northern Siberia, creating an estimating 1,700 pieces of debris in the process. Also, last year the International Space Station had to fire its thrusters to dodge an old NASA satellite that’s floating around up there.

All told, NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of debris in orbit around the Earth, traveling at speeds up to 17,500 mph. Now some scientists are proposing a solution: they say a medium-powered ground-based laser combined with a ground-based telescope could reduce the risk of collision by nudging potentially dangerous debris out of the way.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/space-laser-proposed-to-zap-space-junk/

[azishot]

Sleep well tonight if you can.

[wally_bert]

Goldeneye was a real letdown.

If only Pierce could have been out of Remington Steele, he probably would have done really well.

[HKMk23]

Any method of inducing an impulse of sufficient power and duration to push those bits out of orbit would be good.

[RedHeeler]

Very cool, demshateGod. I agree!

[Beowulf9]

Not feeling comfortable, here...

[Kickass Conservative]

Obama said he wouldn't Weaponize Space.

He apparently thought he was setting some kind of example.

An example of a Traitor that is.