Argh!

[gfish]

The Pentagon wants to shoot down that failing spysat. Do we really want to encourage more ASAT activity after last year's disastrous Chinese test? It wouldn't be hard to ruin LEO for decades. Argh.

Comments

[pathdancer.livejournal.com]

I know! Let's turn one large falling object into many!!!

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Many small ones have a good chance of burning up. One big one has a very good chance of landing somewhere unpredictable, chock-full of our very best military-grade spy electronics, which many people would like to see.

[pathdancer.livejournal.com]

Or even better -- perhaps it'll land someplace hostile to us, giving them a (feeble) excuse to retaliate.

Once they've reverse-engineered all the nifty gizmos, of course.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

That's a good point I hadn't thought of. The chances of anyone getting hurt by the fuel are a lot smaller than it landing where the 'bad guys' might get a look at it first.