Robotic Satellite's First Military Mission?

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Robotic Satellite's First Military Mission?
« on: March 04, 2009, 05:00:03 pm »
Robotic Satellite's First Military Mission?
     






When the article hit in
February describing the collision of
Russian and US space satellites, I was both surprised and suspicious.
The satellites shared a popular near-Earth orbit at around 500 miles,
but still, it's like having two grains of sand meet in a football stadium.  
Not impossible, but very unlikely, especially
since these multi-million-dollar satellites are tracked by
several Earth-based stations.  
The position of nearly 1000 satellites are monitored along
with thousands of tiny items - some as small as 5cm.
Now, a Russian
General is saying the collision might have been a military test
to prove if a robotic satellite could be capable of disabling or destroying
an enemy satellite.
Whether any of this is true or not remains to be seen, but I don't think
we've heard the end of this story.

   

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