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Russian general says U.S. may have planned satellite collision
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by zeet | March 7, 2009 at 06:22 am
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The Russians think the February collision could be an indication that the U.S. is capable of manipulating 'hostile satellites,' including their destruction, with a single command from a ground control center.
MOSCOW, March 3 (RIA Novosti) - A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said.
According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite, launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct, collided on February 10 about 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia.
However, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Shershnev, a former head of Russia's military space intelligence, said in an interview published by the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on Tuesday that the U.S. satellite involved in the collision was used by the U.S. military as part of the "dual-purpose" Orbital Express research project, which began in 2007.
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at 07:25 on March 7th, 2009
There is so much junk up there its a wonder this does not happen more often.
Well at least the Russians did not ask to see the insurance papers. I expect there was no third party cover in any case.
But the question is who hit who? perhaps there is a need for traffic lights or some traffic police, lol
Again its a must be and damn these yanks they are knocking our dufunked rubbish off orbit, their playing space billards with our rubbish. lol
You gotta love those Russian's.
at 07:33 on March 7th, 2009
Soon we are all gonna look like tourists visiting New York City, looking up in the air all the time - only we will look out to avoid falling debris from colliding satellites.
Maybe we all get to wear a special "anti-debris-safety-hat". lol