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To Set Alight A Satellite

Steve Scott

Monday, March 12th, 2007

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The Air Safety Consequences Of China's Satellite Destruction In a display of maximal machismo, apparently to prove its status as an emerging Super Power, China on Jan. 11 blew up one of its own defunct weather satellites. thereby joining an exclusive club of countries with space weapons. Using a ground-based medium-range ballistic missile launched from Xichang Space Center in Sichuan Province, the test knocked out an aging Chinese weather satellite about 537 miles (860 kilometers) above the earth through "kinetic…

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