Shooting Spacecraft

[rocketeddy]

Almost exactly a year ago, the Chinese tested (or demonstrated) an anti-satellite weapon by destroying an old weather satellite. This was a bad thing. The debris cloud it produced is a huge hazard to spacecraft (both manned and unmanned) to say nothing of the political implications. With the energies and velocities involved in space, hitting an

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[rocketeddy]

from 1994...

[rocketeddy]

It might be worth noting the Chinese ASAT test resulted in more than 150,000 pieces of debris larger than 1 cm