Military plans to shoot rogue satellite out of the sky
- February 14th, 2008
- 4 Comments
We’re gonna shoot that rogue satellite out of the sky. How clutch is that?
Yup, the president just gave the go-ahead to knock that now-broken satellite right out of the sky. The satellite, which the military hasn’t had control of since its launch in December 2006, is predicted to fall back to Earth the first week of March. Rather than risk having the bus-sized object careen toward civilization—predicting where it would land is pretty difficult—we’re gonna go the Armageddon route.
It’s the first time a missile will be used to bring down a satellite and no one knows the chances of its success. Apparently, though, after much analysis, taking a chance is better than not.
I cannot wait. Grab some popcorn, boys and girls.
US Plans to Shoot Down Broken Satellite [AP/Breitbart via Drudge]
Joel Simpson (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Actually, we (the USA) joined a few other countries in great protest over China downing one of their own weather satellites just a short time ago. Conspiracy theorists might wonder if we launched a defective classified satellite just to shoot it down with a classified missile in order to verify our own capabilities to take out satellites.
reference: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16689558/
bill (Who am I?)
1 month ago
huh?
Tejaswy (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Well ,will that not cause more problems instead….Shooting it means breaking it up…large particals may fall down but the smaller one which stay in the orbit…we are gonna have a problem with them ….every country will have to keep a track of them as they may cause a known damage to the already known satellites and the new ones that are about to be launched
Criss.AC (Who am I?)
1 month ago
One could think the reason behind this is money. I do not have the slightest idea about how launching of such kind of satellite is done, but I am sure there is a way of bringing it back as it has been launched. However, I’m quite positive that such scenario would cost lots more money than actually the missle fired (or going to be) at it.