US to shoot down broken spy sat

Well Atlantis is now en route to Florida. There are reports that the first sat shot will be tonight. Here is a link :

apnews.myway.com...

So in 24 hours we have the shuttle landing, a lunar eclipse and a sat being shot down...great time to be alive.

Does anyone know if we're going to be able to see it getting blown out of the sky? Will there be a fireworks display of sorts? I really hope so.

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Maybe at night, but from what I understand the SM-3 is a kinetic weapon? I don't think it has much explosives on board as it's meant to hit-to-kill. The energy of the weapon's momentum alone should be enough to take most anything in the sky out.

Shattered OUT...

I would think there would be quite a show when the remnants start falling down. Assuming we hit it of course.
According to THIS Hawaii might have a good seat for any show.

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[edit on 20-2-2008 by macgyver]

Just hearing now on the news that is unlikely to happen today/tonight.

The sea's are a bit high around Hawaii.

It goes against my policy to post without reading the entire thread but I just can't do it right now.

That being said did anyone mention or ask this question:

What happens if the missile misses and hits a large meteor changing it's trajectory toward earth?

I would think they can destroy the thing remotely if it happens to miss but if they don't and it happens to bump a meteor we may have a bigger problem than a bus sized satellite.

[edit on 20-2-2008 by jbondo]

If they miss, they will shoot again. I think they are planning on up to 3 shots at it. If any, or all miss, then we have the sat and any missiles to worry about falling on us. The missiles are unarmed so no chance of an explosion.

Nice summary over at Globalsec... Information Piece. Little bit more detail than others...

Cheers,

Vic

EDIT: I keep noticing crap like this, "Due to existing National Security Restrictions pertaining to access of and use of U.S. Government-provided information and data, all users accessing this web site must be an approved registered user to access data on this site.", popping up on sites... and then they don't have any data anyway. 'Merica land of the "free" home of the deceived.

Orbital data seems to have "dried up". Wink... depends where one trusts to look. LOL.

Vic






[edit on 20-2-2008 by V Kaminski]

The Navy is "bagging it" in the S Pacific for the day. "Maybe tomorrow" they said. Bad weather.

Interestingly, USA 193 is headed into/over SW Asia, then Russia and finally China (all darkside) and Japan before overflying the Pacific again.
follow groundtrack here:

www.heavens-above.com...

I'm sure the thing is naked eye visible in areas of low light pollution like some of the areas it's overflying now and this afternoon.

Does anybody think we have the resources in place to take a land based shot? I know some of the places it's overflying do.

Who is going to shoot first?

Additionally, the SM's are basically guided inertial killers. Supposedly.

I believe that we will employ a directed-energy weapon,
en.wikipedia.org...
The form of energy (laser, maser) will be dictated by the desired effect on the "hydrazine" (wink, wink). i.e. the guaranteed combustion of the "fuel" before earth impact.

The Naval launch is a backup, in my opinion.

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I make it 10-12 orbits before a "good" North Pacific Naval launch opportunity... funny how Russkie data differs from "Heavens". Wink. No, I won't give up the link or contact, get your own.

Hey, Level 3 guys in Denver... how you like them apples hayseed? Some anonymous folks talkin' 'bout you...

US Navy says "Done for the day"? Just makes me watch closer, Dr. Porter.

Thanx, T', 'owe you...

Vic

[edit on 20-2-2008 by V Kaminski]

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Yaaay! I am so happy that somebody else noticed the discrepancy (got my own!)
Glad to know that others are watching.

I still feel that we have space-based resources in place to take the shot...


[edit on 20/2/08 by cbianchi513]

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is posting utter crap allowed here?

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Don't know. But, one liner's apparently are LOL. They'll likely take the shot today... like I said. If not no biggie, what's a few more PO'd Yanks in the big picture. Could be worse though... both China and Russia could shoot it before the Yanks can draw a bead... Could drop it right on them there AEGIS Missile ships. LOL. Entertainment... great day.

Vic

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you post so nice info - then put other random junk ` hayseed and apples`...... then straight back with sat tracks - its the randomness which makes me like `huh`

Originally posted by Harlequin
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you post so nice info - then put other random junk ` hayseed and apples`...... then straight back with sat tracks - its the randomness which makes me like `huh`

It's the "randomness" that makes me smile...as it makes me go "huh"?

I think that the orbit has decayed to the point where it could start terminal re-entry soon enough to raise a few brows, and concur that USA 193 will be down within hours.

Enjoy the show, and the Eclipse, and any other falling/burning/flying celestial objects today!

You're right I better stop posting "clean" data that'd put me in league with the US military. LOL. No soup for you! LOL. No... it's still there give it 12 or 15 hours. Yeah, Level 3 look 'em up... I did. LOL. MIC's.

Vic

the thing is , both russia and china have asat capability to shoot it down - but i am gonna watch the eclipse for sure

just listening to the radio and they said that the shooting down of this satellite has been called off. they said bad weather was the cause.

^^ i must laugh

to President North Korea ,

can you please only shoot your nukes at us in clear weather on a nice sunny day with no wind - or our navy intercepters might not blow them up

signed

secretary of defence USA

[edit on 20/2/08 by Harlequin]

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Dude that really made me laugh!

Can you add a PS to China, Iran and Russia?

Why not also have them add the date and exact times of their launches so we can be ready and out of the way of bad weather...
Thanks for the lunchtime laugh.