Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Chinese Scale: From Zero to long-lived debris

Zero by Effie Wu (thank you Richard The)







".... China deliberately destroyed a satellite in a healthy orbit for
the purpose of testing an active ASAT capability. It destroyed the
satellite at an altitude of over 800 kilometers, resulting in thousands
of pieces of long-lived orbital debris that could remain in orbit for
over a century. Furthermore, China conducted its ASAT test in secret,
without notifying other nations of the risk to other nations’ space
assets that would be generated by its actions..."

-2008 USA fragment from the "Brunt Frost Communications Plan" on China's January 2007
"engagement"