Re: U.S. Plans to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite

Possibly because it wasn't the same thing - the ChiComs destroyed a satellite in orbit that created nearly 46% of the current hazardous orbital debris. The current intention is to bust up the satellite during re-entry to make the debris smaller - not while it's in orbit. The difference is that the debris field will not be left in orbit and will not threaten other satellites. The Chinese created a debris field that threatens all current a future satellites.

Mike


"The Rifleman" <survivor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:_MKdnTPJpY77KSjanZ2dnUVZ8sGvnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
Yet when the chinese govt did exactly the same thing last year the yanks were in uproar about it.

President Bush, acting on the advice of his national security
advisers, has decided to attempt to shoot down a malfunctioning spy
satellite that is expected to crash to Earth early next month, a
spokesman for the National Security Council said today.




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