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PostPosted: Tue 01-23-2007 9:11PM 
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Source: Wilson Library
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003201.html

So the ChiComms seen to have develpoed an ASAT capability, and decided to let the whole world know about it (along with creating a dangerous group of debris). Course, it was an old weather satellite, and (apparently) a low one (not sure how that works out, GEO is ~36,000 km up, LEO is just ~350 km). Anyhow, interesting development, different from both the Soviet (chase sat a la Moonraker) and American approach (F-15 with an ASAT missile).

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