Shooting down a satelite

[Scott7m]

I saw on the news they finally shotdown that satelite. They said they were worrying about it crashing into earth, but with our atmosphere to protect us why would they think that it wouldn't break up? Our space shuttle has to enter at a angle of precise calculations or it will vaporize..

On the news the they said that it cost about 40 million to shoot it down and that the military was thrilled it was a success.

makes me wonder, if it was just practice for shooting down other satelites sometime. Because they used the same ol "for our safety" deal.

I donno.. what do you guys think?

[schroader]

I had rather see them spent the $40m on that than see them spend $.01 on the baseball investigation......:cool:

[Pugs]

They said they were worrying about it crashing into earth, but with our atmosphere to protect us why would they think that it wouldn't break up?

1000 lb tank of frozen hydrozene designed to withstand 20 years of micro-meteor impacts wouldn't have. Would really ruin your day in fact.

This also ensured that any technology on it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. You'd be amazed at what can be learned by a fraction of a piece of something.

Kudo's for the crew of the USS Lake Erie, nice shot.

[Chigger]

I had rather see them spent the $40m on that than see them spend $.01 on the baseball investigation......:cool:

Amen!! Im tired of listening to it! Id say 75% of the players over the last 10yrs have done it...................who care's?

[Scott7m]

1000 lb tank of frozen hydrozene designed to withstand 20 years of micro-meteor impacts wouldn't have. Would really ruin your day in fact.

This also ensure that any technology on it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. You'd be amazed at what can be learned by a fraction of a piece of something.

Kudo's for the crew of the USS Lake Erie, nice shot.


Good point..

[Willie]

The video....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23276927#23276927

[CUZZIN]

Nice,just goes to show you what the good ol USA is capable of:)

[Ky'sFinest]

been capable of that for a long time... couple of decades now.

[daking]

Nice shootin' guys.

[pentail]

I have a feelin that part of it was to thumb their nose at china. China shot one down a year or so ago and let it get to close and didn't blow it into small enough pieces. this basically made it from one big piece falling to several big pieces falling. I think the US military just wanted to put on a little show for em:D

[slow-bow]

130 mile "kill-shot".
Kinda makes you feel "little" knowing that most of us(bowhunters) have made a "clean-miss" at 20yds., or less, at some point in time.
"Denial" ain't just a river, boys.

[Wildcat]

The spy satelite cost over one billion dollars to build and put into space. It was large enough that large parts of it would have survived. Remember the Space Shutte Columbia, it burned up but still came down in very large pieces. Skylab came down into the ocean there were pieces as large as a minvan that made it though.

I'm thinking besides the fuel aboard the US didn't want any of it to make it back to earth, they didn't want China and Russia to get any of the pieces. By shooting it and breaking it up into smaller pieces they ensured that they all would burn up before hitting the oceans.

[Brewtus]

I believe it was target practice.

[deadaim]

I would bet there was a hardrive on there somewere that would show what they have been spying on...................................

[KYCatBirdHunter]

There's no way this had anything to do with protecting us or keeping secrets out of the enemy's hands.

For one, they let stuff bigger than this fall from the sky all the time, so protecting is out the window.

Also, any sensitive information which was on board this could have been destroyed remotely via "self-destruct" mechanisms. If not, I'd like to meet the moron engineer who built this thing.

The only reason they shot it down was to show China that we can.

[Brewtus]

We are honing our skills to shoot down in coming missiles.

[aceoky]

Dang I was hoping this was a "job application" (with big bucks to the chosen shooter(s) LOL :D:D:D:D:D

[trust me]

Also, any sensitive information which was on board this could have been destroyed remotely via "self-destruct" mechanisms. If not, I'd like to meet the moron engineer who built this thing.

The only reason they shot it down was to show China that we can.


The story is they never established radio contact from launch. It was dead from the get-go. Could be legitimate.

As for China, that is an excellent reason to do it. The satellite could have been an intended clay pigeon from the start. If so, good for us.

[Ky'sFinest]

i think we were showing off... like i said earlier its not the first time we blew a satellite out of the sky, the first was back in the 80's.

i think the cold war is about to come back again.

i'm not against showing off but scared of the decades to come. here recently other nations have been flexing i think its our turn. it takes a lot to blow a satellite that is moving in a faster than the earth orbit (no telling exactly but approx 17,000+ mph).

[KYCatBirdHunter]

nevermind the treaty we signed that said we wouldn't do that.

[Captain Farrel]

Well it certainly sends a powerful message to the rouge nations on this planet