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Missile that esploded the satellite last night.
>> Anonymous
the missile exploded not the satellite
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actually nothing asploded. impact of the missile head was enough to destroy it.
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>>302614
>>302613

actually you are both wrong. the missile wasn't armed with a warhead, as the impact of the objects enough was the destroy the fuel tank on the satellite.
>> Anonymous
>>302650
>>302651

HIVEMIND
>> Anonymous
>>302650
>>302651
HIVEMIND!
>> Anonymous
so now toxic material has been unleased and its wide dispersal will cause death and illness to thousands instead of hundreds. Great.
I'm staying in my man cave.
>> Anonymous
>>302660
It's a spy satellite they destroyed it just in case anything large were to fall, quite literally, into another country's hands.
>> Anonymous
>>302660

Not quite. The fuel on it Hydrazine. Which has a boiling point just a bit above that of water. I think the 5,000°C heat of reentry ought to take care of it. Besides, NASA and the RSA use it all the time. While dangerous, it's handled rather well.
>> Anonymous
>>302617
Am i the only one that keeps thinking that pic is CG? it just doesn't look real to me :\

No, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or something like that.
>> slowpoke.jpg Anonymous
>>Missile that esploded the satellite last night.

wait what
>> Anonymous
>>302821
US Navy used an SM-3 missile (typically used for missile defense) to hit a US spy satellite which had lost control authority. Because the US could not order it to de-orbit safely, they were worried that:
- the Hydrazine tank on board might hurt someone (yeah right)
- the sensitive billion-dollar instruments could be reverse-engineered (more likely)
- China would call us wimps for not taking a shot, since they shot one of their own dying weather sats down recently

So we blew it out of the sky. The SM-3 doesn't have a warhead, just a ~50lb guided front section that hits at about 10km/s. The momentum of the impact is the equivalent of ~200lbs of TNT, so the school-bus sized satellite didn't ever really have a chance.
>> Anonymous
>>302787
you're just plain fucking blind
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the end :)

enjoy your confidential govt. docs
>> Anonymous
>>303192
Er... Wow, thank you.
>> Anonymous
FBI IS HERE
>> Anonymous
Satellite wasn't actually destroyed, they just launched the missle to make you think that's what happened. It's still up there and spying on you fapping.
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raytheon is genius
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JAPAN POWER
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>>302823
great, we get to look forward to the kessler syndrome now.
fyi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_Syndrome
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GBI HIJACK
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>>303966
I don't think so, Tim.
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>>302823
FYI, shooting down a satellite at 500miles altitude in polar orbit from a head-on shot is much, much, much easier than shooting down a satellite in LEO orbit at 150 miles altitude from a side-on shot.
>> Anonymous
>>303971
oh, and how not? you guys just explained that the missile impaled it. sending debris in every direction, small and large.
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SM-3 KW
>> Anonymous
>>303978
the sat was on low earth orbit, not too far from reentry altitude. All debris from the destruction of the sat will deorbit and burn up in the atmosphere soon.

It wasn't the same deal for china's missile test, since their target was 400 miles higher in altitude, and the debris has to cross paths with a shit ton of other satellites before reaching reentry altitude.
>> Anonymous
>>303978
you missed the last sentance in that wiki article:

>Fortunately, at the most commonly used Low Earth Orbits residual air drag helps keep the zones clear. Altitudes under 300 miles will be swept clear in a matter of months.
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They should have used this thing instead of the SM-3 to burn a hole in its tank, since the YAL-1A designed to do specifically that. Also, lasers > missiles.
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I love this pic
>> Anonymous
I love it how they say in all the media reports that they fired a "modified" SM-3. The SM-3 doesn't need to be modified in any way to be able to intercept a LEO sat at 150 miles alt., since the normal SM-3 can intercept ballistic missile warheads traveling at even faster speeds and at higher altitudes.
>> Anonymous
>>303982
>>303988
and you don't expect debris to go up higher in altitude when already hit? it also takes time for it to go down, it doesn't instantly fall out of the sky. was the altitude of the satellite higher or lower than 300miles?

as noted here>>303176they never mention once about what could stay up in the sky. only what happens to what falls.

>>303192
on another note, FOUO does not mean confidential. it just means as what it says, for official use only. not confidential or secret. i see this all the time as i am in the service.
FOUO =/= confidential

i'm just stating that they don't tell half of what could happen in the future and that nobody thinks about it until its too late.
>> Anonymous
>>304007

For the public, saying it was modified makes it looks like they made an extra effort to make sure this satellite was "shot down".
>> Rakshasa
The satellite would have a different trajectory and shape from a ballistic missile, so likely they needed to modify the software a bit. Stuff like predicting the location of the warhead doesn't make much sense in this case.
>> Anonymous
>>304023
>>304095

In this case, "modified" refers to software.
>> Anonymous
>>304023

Lower. The intercept was at 153 NM.

Here's how it works: Missile hits satellite and smashes it to bits. No explosion, no debris being thrown to higher orbits. That just doesn't happen. Atmospheric drag slows debris faster than it slows whole satellite. Two weeks from now, debris burns up in atmosphere. The end.
>> M1s1lH4x Anonymouse
We only did it because The Chinese developed a new anti-satellite rocket and tested it on one of their aging weather satellites a few weeks back. This was just a statement showing that the US can do the same thing.
>> Anonymous
>>304290
Or because it was a US spy satellite and they didn't want people like Russia or China or Cuba to get hold of the possible residues of technology or information that would be aboard that satellite if it crash landed in the middle of fucking Russia or some shit.
>> Anonymous
>>304290

Even if that's one reason the US did this, and it probably is, it's not the *only* reason, dumbass. The odds of the satellite harming anyone were low, but they're even lower now, so it was a legitimate operation.

Also, China didn't shoot down that satellite "a few weeks back," they did it OVER A YEAR AGO, you fucking twit.
>> Anonymous
>>304007

The US actually first shot down a satellite in 1989. I don't think they were worrying about pissing contests.
>> noko
>>304023
What service, anon?