I hope this works. Not because of the problems associated with it not working and the satellite coming to earth instead. No, I want to see our missile defense system put to a greater good than just combating missiles from our enemies. And I want it to prove itself. If successful, this alone could make believers out of so many who scoff at this system of defense.
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U.S. will down failed satellite
By Bill Gertz
February 15, 2008
The Pentagon's plan to shoot down a failed satellite with a missile defense interceptor in the coming days is aimed at preventing toxic fuel from reaching earth. But U.S. officials and experts said yesterday it would also signal that U.S. missile defenses can be used to counter China's strategic anti-satellite weapons.
China conducted its first successful test of an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon on Jan. 11, 2007, in what defense and military officials called a new strategic threat to the United States.
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