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

In sci.geo.satellite-nav Mogens Beltoft <mogens@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
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A piece that remains in a low orbit for a long time must be
heavy and have a stable, nearly circular orbit not much lower
than the original one.

This all reminds me of a sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem, in which
a layman asks a spacefarer how to recognize inhabited planets,
and the answer is that you recognize them by their garbage
rings.

Wouldn't that be garbage spheres or layers and not rings?

I mean, we have a lot of polar orbiting satellites, and a lot of
geostationary satellites, and some in between.

http://www.centerforspace.com/downloads/videos/Xichang_ASAT.wmv (41 MB)

Scaring...

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