This was more about demonstrating how easily the US military can blow satellites out of the sky. The message wasn’t for us.
Satellite Shootdown: Like 'Star Wars
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HONOLULU—"It was like something out of Star Wars," said a senior defense official who watched in a Pacific Command control room here as the U.S. military shot down its broken reconnaissance satellite last night. The satellite was traveling at upwards of 17,000 mph with 1,000 pounds of hydrazine--that's "a hazardous fuel which could pose a danger to people on Earth," as the Department of Defense explained in a release.