Satellite Shoot-Down: The Animated Version

Animated video depicting the U.S. shoot-down of an errant satellite

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ASAT
• satellite
• military
• missile
• defense
• Pentagon
• weapons
• Aviation
• Space

[Terryzarzoff]

More space debris... just what we needed....

[LooseLatitude]

I feel ya. We were light years ahead on a bunch of stuff.

The exciting part of it now is that the rest of the world has caught up and we get to compete.

[kirza94]

@Guyver89 yes germans were first to build rockets "nearly finish an atom bomb first. " Urm that doesnt matter America built it first,

[101andrewj]

@Guyver89 did u forget that america is a english nation... they like to think they created themselfs from nowhere, but the fact is they are a spawn of england, americas national language is english, this is proof enough... germany was smart, but not smart enough.... from 1650-1850 over 50% of the population of the UK immigrates to north america.. englands power was spread out into what would become independant nations

[2solerio]

@Guyver89 probly cus we do more -_-

[JRBeaman]

@SH0TTYMAD

There was more of it in the space shuttle that came down, and there was no has-mat people or panic, so this whole project smells of political message to me.

[Guyver89]

Really? if the english are the smartest how come the germans were the first to build rockets or nearly finish an atom bomb first. I mean I give you guys props for building the first tanks in WW1 and best fighters in WW2 but I haven't heard anything about the british space program that much. It is usually NASA and the Russian Space program usually conducting most of the work.

[Guyver89]

The satellite was around I think 20 years old knowing Chinese spies they probably already know it.

[bradersno1]

as the english are the smartest on earth we wait for america to start spending money researching then obviously they'll need our help so we call a treaty with them over space/missile attacks. build our own. job done. then we forget certain contries save the money and effort and actually help ppl who we have a chance of helping and who has'nt been brainwashed.