Satellite Shootdown Suprised Planners
The U.S. missile defense community learned a lot from the recent shot down of a disabled spy satellite.
"We didn’t predict an explosion," says Rear Adm. Brad Hicks, U.S. Navy manager of the Aegis air and space defense program. "But the hydrazine tank did burn for tens of seconds. [The impact] also created smaller pieces than we had predicted. What’s still up there [is so small that] it is not showing up in the debris field."
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