Thursday, February 21, 2008

Kinetic Energy Kill Vehicle to destroy "stray" satellite

From all the movies and propaganda we have about NASA. It makes you wonder how
such an agency loses control of a satellite. Interestingly enough it gives them an opportunity
to show off their Kinetic Energy Kill Vehicle.

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/kkill.htm

Interestingly enough China did a test of this technogy on on January 12, 2007 so is the United States raising the bar.

http://russianforces.org/blog/2007/01/is_china_repeating_the_old_sov.shtml

For those thinking hey this is just a blog post here is an article on the NY Post confirming it too.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01222007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/chinas_space_attack_test_opedcolumnists_peter_brookes.htm

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