Re: Kiss your GPS units goodbye.. China destroys Satellite with missile



On Jan 19, 12:02 am, Marc Brett <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
be aimed at the United States," he said.Eh? Are the USA and China the only countries in the world with LEO satellites?

Indeed, the other issue here is akin to that of land mines. This sort
of deliberate collision junks up space for everybody with a bunch more
useless but dangerous objects. We have guys at Cheyenne Mountain who
work full time tracking such debris.


-- J.S.

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