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Thursday, February 21 2008, 12:47 AM Satellite in celestial crosshairs blasted WASHINGTON | A missile launched from a Navy ship successfully struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, a defense official said. It happened just after 9:30 p.m. Central time. 30 News Stories, 4 Liberal Blogs, 8 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

legitgov Military Says Missile Hit Spy Satellite Result of Strike Still Being Determined. A missile launched from a Navy ship struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, the Pentagon said. It was not clear whether the operation succeeded in its main goal of destroy

AntiWar.com Satellite Shootdown Fuels Fears Of New Space Race Excerpt: Independent arms-control critics here say that Wednesday's successful strike by a missile launched from a US warship in the Pacific Ocean of a dying spy satellite will add to growing fears in Russia and China that Washington is determined to asse

legitgov U.s. Shot Raises Tensions And Worries Over Satellites The shot that slammed into a crippled U.S. spy satellite Wednesday has raised fears of a new arms race in the heavens and increased tensions on Earth.

legitgov Us Declares 1400-mile Pacific Sat-shoot Exclusion Zone The US military has issued a warning notice barring flights above a large area of the northern Pacific for two and a half hours early on Thursday morning. The stricken spy satellite marked for destruction by US warships will pass over the taped-off area j

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memeorandum Navy Missile Hits Spy Satellite (robert Burns/associated Press) Robert Burns / Associated Press: Navy Missile Hits Spy Satellite — WASHINGTON (AP) - A missile launched from a Navy ship successfully struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, a defense official

Ace of Spades HQ The Navy Shoots...the Navy Hits Hell yes. A missile launched from a Navy ship successfully struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, a defense official said. Full details were not immediately available. It happened just after 10:30 p.m....

FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog Missile Defense Watch: A Hit USS Lake Erie According to Drudge: A defense official says a missile launched from a Navy ship in the Pacific hit the U.S. spy satellite it was targeting 130 miles above Earth’s surface. Full details are not yet available. There was a successful in

BLACKFIVE Hey Man, Nice Shot, Missile Bags A Satellite That whole crazy Star Wars thing Ronnie Raygun was poking Gorbachev in the eye with might be just what the Doctor ordered. It looks like we got a one shot, one kill on our broken spy satellite. I kinda think taking it out had as much to do with proving

FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog Missile Defense Watch: Us Shoots Down Failed Spy Satellite The Pentagon Briefing and the first video of the missile strike of the satellite The USS Lake Erie armed with an SM-3 missile successfully intercepted a failed United States spy satellite. However, it will be another 24-48 hours to know for sure that

BrothersJudd Blog We Aren't In The Ease Business: U.S. display of antisatellite capability leaves rivals uneasy (Thom Shanker, February 22, 2008, NY Times) Videotape of the U.S. Navy mission to shoot down a dying spy satellite made available shows an interceptor missile ascending atop a bright trail of b

memeorandum Officials Review Weather To Plan Shooting Down Of Satellite (thom Shanker/new York Times) Thom Shanker / New York Times: Officials Review Weather to Plan Shooting Down of Satellite — WASHINGTON — The many moving parts of a mission to shoot down a dying spy satellite with an antimissile interceptor lined up Wednesday af

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