Re: Just heard: they nailed that recon satellite

On Feb 20, 8:56 pm, kT <cos...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
robert casey wrote:
Seems they hit it at about 10:30 PM EST.

So, when and where do we expect the meteor shower?

A good shower of hot and nasty stuff for at least the next month or
so, sounds about right.

Just silly pondering, as to what's the all-inclusive combined $$$
investment here?

We talking of the initial satellite R&D, of it's launch and multiple
efforts trying to fix a seriously dead DoD/MI5/CIA horse, then the
spendy kill and now the ongoing tracking and bit by bit clean up that
could go on for years, and that's if nothing else encounters said
debris in the mean time.

That all-inclusive tally has got to be spendy.

Otherwise, that's also an impressive accomplishment, a direct hit at
roughly 10 km/s in 3D space is proof positive that if we know exactly
where the target is at any given moment, and having all the very best
of terrestrial and space applied tracking and navigation in addition
to whatever AI the missile itself had to work with, that we can in
fact take out any number of satellites or incoming ICBM's that are not
using stealth or tactical avoidance measures.

Of course, now we've got another month of orbital decay debris to
contend with, and likely some of that satellite debris that's
unavoidably headed a bit higher and going off in multiple directions
at the same time that is either unknown or nondisclosure rated as to
how many years before such artificial and potentially lethal flak
returns to Earth.
.. - Brad Guth
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