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China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S. - New York Times
by Abaddon at 7:02 pm EST, Jan 18, 2007

China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said Thursday.
Only two nations — Russia and the United States — have previously destroyed spacecraft in anti-satellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid 1980s.
Arms control experts called the test, in which a Chinese missile destroyed an aging Chinese weather satellite, a troubling development that could foreshadow either an anti-satellite arms race or, alternatively, a diplomatic push by China to force the Bush administration into negotiations on a weapons ban.

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RE: China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S. - New York Times
by Decius at 8:42 pm EST, Jan 18, 2007

Abaddon wrote:

China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week...

That depends how you define "anti-satellite weapon."


  
RE: China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S. - New York Times
by Abaddon at 3:55 pm EST, Jan 19, 2007

Decius wrote:

Abaddon wrote:

China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week...

That depends how you define "anti-satellite weapon."

from what I've read, the weapon america tested some time back basically just put a metal rod in the satallites orbit and let them collide at orbital volocity...


China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S. - New York Times
by Rattle at 2:33 am EST, Jan 19, 2007

China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said Thursday.

Only two nations — Russia and the United States — have previously destroyed spacecraft in anti-satellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid 1980s.

Arms control experts called the test, in which a Chinese missile destroyed an aging Chinese weather satellite, a troubling development that could foreshadow either an anti-satellite arms race or, alternatively, a diplomatic push by China to force the Bush administration into negotiations on a weapons ban.

“This is the first real escalation in the weaponization of space that we’ve seen in 20 years,” said Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity. “It ends a long period of restraint.”

I saw this earlier today, and intended to comment in length. I've since remembered how hard that is to do with a broken hand.

We should just come up with a set of reasonable terms and make a treaty happen. I don't see the weaponization of space as a strategy that will lead to the monetization of space.


 
RE: China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S. - New York Times
by Shannon at 10:27 am EST, Jan 19, 2007

Rattle wrote:

I saw this earlier today, and intended to comment in length. I've since remembered how hard that is to do with a broken hand.

We should just come up with a set of reasonable terms and make a treaty happen. I don't see the weaponization of space as a strategy that will lead to the monetization of space.

But weapons are to space what porn is to the internet.


 
 
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