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I think this is a pretty clear signal to China/Russia, for very different reasons but also a cheap (400odd million) statement to make. Lets hope they hit the target this time unlike the many failed Patriot and missile shield tests to date. ]]>Feb 19th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/
some are calling it a testing of the US missile defence system, if this fails funding goes down the drain.]]>Feb 19th 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/
awkwarddd....]]>Feb 19th 2008 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Not that I buy the hydrazine story, I'm sure the tank will at the very least crack during re-entry and there will be no content left.
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presumably there wont be any chunks large enough to blend.]]>Feb 19th 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 20th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 20th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/
As an aside, the translations on that Asahi website are hilarious.]]>Feb 19th 2008 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/
Any notes about WHERE it is supposed to land?]]>Feb 19th 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/"Quick honey, make a wish!"]]>Feb 19th 2008 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/]]>Feb 19th 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 20th 2008 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Microfilm 1 on eBay! Willing to exchange the solar panel with new plants and grass!]]>Feb 19th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 20th 2008 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/But facts will let you know that it can land in your room and kill you.
Maybe I should have taken some journalism classes while in college to uncover these mysteries.]]>Feb 19th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 19th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 22nd 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Feb 22nd 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/
@DHF: What else would we shoot down? We can't hit a media satellite-the company would complain and it definitely wouldn't stay classified for long. We can't hit another country's satellite, for obvious reasons. And why would we trade one government satellite for another? that just wouldn't make sense... we'd lose both expensive satellites.

Furthermore, the idea that it's being shot down because the government is afraid that some classified data might survive reentry is ridiculous. Think about it-the satellite is not made to survive reentry anyway, so it doesn't have heat shielding. The interior of the satellite is going to become hot enough to melt any kind of data storage used. Therefore, the only conclusion left is that it's being shot down because of its dangerous nature.]]>Feb 21st 2008 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/Who knows.....just a thought. As far as it being fired upon because of classified data could land in wrong hands is not what I intended to say.
The technology for shielding a satellite from burning upon re-entry has been tested. A Russian company long with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace and the European Space Agency had developed an inflatable type shield some years ago. Saving classified info. is important for any country with spy satellites. Maybe we don't want other countries to know it was saved.......???]]>Feb 21st 2008 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/disabled-spy-satellite-photographed-in-japan/
The Yanks actually hit the intended target.

Not the French embassy in Libya or the first British fighter plane in the current Iraq war (OK, don't get me started about friendly fire). ]]>Mar 3rd 2008 3:06AM