I’ve seen reports that China had three unsuccessful or non-intercept tests before the January 11th shootdown of FY-1C: MCINTYRE: According to U.S. government officials, after three misses, China last Thursday succeed in shooting down one of its own aging weather satellites with a medium range ballistic missile fired from the ground. U.S. [s]ensors tracked the …
Iran's Centrifuges Exploded…
by | 2007-01-19 | 2 Comments
…but that’s not, as the AP implied, a measure of the program’s current progress. Read here.
Lolly Lolly Get Yer ASAT News Here
by | 2007-01-19 | 32 Comments
This diagram shows the debris from the Chinese ASAT test, as presented in a preliminary analysis by MIT’s Geoff Forden using his awesome new GUI Missile Flyout program (download). The debris, Geoff notes, … … split in orbits, with one group remaining in a fairly circular orbit and the other in a more eccentric group …
Responses to Chinese test
by | 2007-01-19 | 5 Comments
Most Russian news repeated almost verbatim the US and British press reports on the Chinese ASAT test, but there is a little info this afternoon on the Russian reaction. (Only Russian language links are up for now, translations are mine.) Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov commented to reporters that he has heard reports of the …
