[stuck_in_new_orleans]

If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology.

someone tell me that this is BS

[jveritas]

It is total BS.

[longshadow]

If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology.

someone tell me that this is BS

Suffice to say that those who really know probably can't say what they know; thus, whatever you read is by definition likely the product of ignorance.

[Regulator]

someone tell me that this is BS

It is.

But don't think they aren't moving quickly. With an economy turbocharged by massive U.S. consumption, they have plenty of money to pay their low wage engineers to work on this kind of thing.

[txroadkill]

If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology.

someone tell me that this is BS

It is, but this is still pretty serious, The former Soviets were trying to come up with this too and it scared the hell out of us then as well. When it is all said and done, it's our satellites that make us superior to everyone else. But the solution we had when we thought the Soviets might be able to figure it out will work just as well today as it would back then, put them in higher orbits, put more of them up there, and make them more maneuverable.

[dr_lew]

My opinion is that satellite interception is pretty much a trivial excercise. Docking is much harder, as it contains an element of paradox in the requirement of zero velocity at intercept.

[NRA2BFree]

someone tell me that this is BS

Wish I could, but I just heard it on the Albuquerque ABC news affiliate. They said it was successful. I took the news like you did. It's not good.

[gr8eman]

It is total BS!

[gr8eman]

It is total BS!

[Clioman]

It IS BS. The Air Force successfully tested an anti-satellite missile (ASM-125) in the 80s, but shelved it on orders from above after lefties in Congress expressed fears that it might upset the Russians.