By Dave Ahearn Several critics recently assailed the U.S. move to use a Lockheed Martin [LMT] sea-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system and Raytheon [RTN] Standard Missile-3 interceptor to shoot down a dead/disabled intelligence satellite, saying the action impairs U.S. moral standing in opposing satellite destruction by other nations. The critics also questioned whether the shoot-down was justified by a sufficient probability that a tank full of 1,000 ponds of toxic hydrazine fuel on the out-of-control satellite would survive reentry…
Critics Assail U.S. Satellite Shoot-Down, But Stop Short of Saying It Was Unneeded
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