[stuck_in_new_orleans]

If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology.

someone tell me that this is BS

[Sandreckoner]

Unbelievable. This is the kind of ridiculously ignorant reporting (as well as that of the main Telegraph article which so casually claimed China was building an "aircraft carrier") that has people buying into literally any China-hype you can think of.

[Lancey Howard]

Seems to me our satellite-based particle beams would blow a missle out of the sky at the speed of light before it got close....

[Constantine XIII]

Reporters + Science = LOL

These guys are dumber than a bag of retarded hammers.

[FLOutdoorsman]

When they can fake a Moon landing, get back to me.

[Admin Moderator]

China has achieved technical superiority over the United States in space

Please don't write your own headlines.

[BunnySlippers]

[GonzoGOP]

The booster on their ASAT was the size of an ICBM. Heck anyone can take out a non-manuvering satellite with another orbital vehicle thrown up into space with a full size booster. The problem is that your ASAT now costs more than my satellite and due to the cost and time necessary to build the booster you couldn't take out more than a few satellites. Might provide an advantage if you want to blind me for a few days while they cause some mischief, but as a strategic weapon its useless. Besides the whole purpose of the DARPA plan for rapid response small boosters (Falcon I and Falcon V) is so that the US can put new satellites up faster they can knock them them down.

Now when they have an ASAT like the F15 launched one we developed 20 years ago let me know. Of course don't have an ASAT now because Clinton scrapped it so as not to be provocative. I guess the Chi-Coms aren't worried about being provocative.

[AZRepublican]

Uh, note that China struck one of their own satellites with a known position and velocity. Most modern spy sats can change position.

[txroadkill]

If China has succeeded in developing  using the technology that Bill Clinton gave then in exchange for campaign contributions to shoot down satellites,...

There, I fixed it, now it's accurate.

[Bobalu]

Don't worry about this.

My best guess is the following...and it's JUST A GUESS.

The really good resolution intel assets are no longer in orbit...they are stealthy and can FLY...they pass data not directly to the ground but by relaying to sats at 23,000 miles altitude...thus they avoid rf detection from ground-based listeners...the data is inserted into normal encrypted data streams and so no traffic analysis is possible.

The big dish rf sig intel assets would be farther out...beyond the range of these sat killers.

[Mike Darancette]

If China has succeeded in developing the technology to shoot down satellites, it will have achieved technical superiority over the US, which is still struggling to develop its interceptor missile technology.

F-15 ASAT