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Space

Navy Uses Aegis/SM-3 To Take Down Dead Intel Satellite

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Thursday, February 21st, 2008

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Tank With Toxic Hydrazine Fuel Likely Destroyed Skeptics Question Whether Shootdown Was Necessary Bullseye. The Navy obliterated a nonfunctional intelligence satellite using the Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Aegis weapon control system and a Raytheon Co. [RTN] Standard Missile-3 fired from a Navy ballistic missile defense (BMD) cruiser, the USS Lake Erie (CG 70). That SM-3 interceptor scored a direct hit on the satellite, and more importantly it likely demolished a tank filled with 1,000 pounds of dangerous hydrazine propellant fuel.…

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