Broken satellite will be shot down

Cybergal · Feb 14, 2008

S: Broken satellite will be shot down
2/14/08

WASHINGTON - President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S. spy satellite and thereby minimize the risk to humans from its toxic fuel by intercepting it just before it re-enters the atmosphere, officials said Thursday.
The effort the first of its kind will be undertaken because of the potential that people in the area where the satellite would otherwise crash could be harmed, the officials said.

Deputy National Security Adviser James Jeffrey, briefing reporters at the Pentagon, did not say when the attempted intercept would be conducted, but the satellite is expected to hit Earth during the first week of March.
"This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings," Jeffrey said.

Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the same briefing that the "window of opportunity" for such a shootdown, presumably to be launched from a Navy ship, will open in the next three or four days and last for seven or eight days. He did not say whether the Pentagon has decided on an exact launch date.
Cartwright said this will be an unprecedented effort; he would not say exactly what are the odds of success.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080214...d_satellite;_ylt=AgxJKcExwLaFLPSjJnuVPSas0NUE
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firstcav · Feb 14, 2008

I hope we don't miss and shoot down the space shuttle or something.

Cybergal · Feb 14, 2008

I hope they don't hit one of those buckets of ####!
(Human Waste) left in space from the Shuttle!

cuzzin it · Feb 14, 2008

firstcav said: ↑

I hope we don't miss and shoot down the space shuttle or something.
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Sounds like a party waiting to happen, Bring your hih powered rifles and bungee cords to strap it to my telescope, we'll getter done

bullhaulerswife · Feb 14, 2008

cuzzin it said: ↑

Sounds like a party waiting to happen, Bring your hih powered rifles and bungee cords to strap it to my telescope, we'll getter done
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Make sure you video that, and post it on You Tube.

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