Satellite shot down=Updated Analysis=Fuel Tank was destroyed

#61 Postby **RL3AO** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:35 pm

cycloneye wrote:They missed it.Another try on thursday.

Did they launch and miss it, or not launch at all?

Coredesat · #62 Postby **Coredesat** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:39 pm

There's nothing at that link. Got a source saying that they fired at all?

Cyclenall · #63 Postby **Cyclenall** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:39 pm

When they miss it, what happens to the missile?

#64 Postby **cycloneye** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:40 pm

RL3AO wrote:
cycloneye wrote:They missed it.Another try on thursday.

Did they launch and miss it, or not launch at all?

No launch.Missed the wednesday window.Another try on thursday.The sposkeman in Honolulu said that they have 8 days to do the operation.

#65 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:41 pm

link to your information?

#66 Postby **RL3AO** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:41 pm

Cyclenall wrote:When they miss it, what happens to the missile?

The Earths gravity will probably pull it back into the ocean as it probably doesn't reach the escape velocity.

#67 Postby **RL3AO** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:44 pm

Fox News said they "hit the missile with the satellite". No. I did not mis-type that.

Wait.

Fox News says it was hit.

#68 Postby **feederband** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:44 pm

Its a hit.

#69 Postby **feederband** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:45 pm

RL3AO wrote:Fox News said they "hit the missile with the satellite". No. I did not mis-type that.

Wait.

Fox News says it was hit.

She did say that... :lol:

Coredesat · #70 Postby **Coredesat** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:45 pm

Fox News must be wrong, because it still shows up on the tracking map.

#71 Postby **RL3AO** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:46 pm

Coredesat wrote:Fox News must be wrong, because it still shows up on the tracking map.

That is a programed track, not a live feed.

Coredesat · #72 Postby **Coredesat** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:47 pm

At any rate, no one else is reporting on it.

EDIT: About 10 seconds after I posted this, it appeared on MSNBC and CNN. Disregard.

Cyclenall · #73 Postby **Cyclenall** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:47 pm

CNN confirms it was a HIT.

#74 Postby **RL3AO** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:48 pm

CNN says it was hit.

#75 Postby **cycloneye** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:48 pm

CNN just saying it was shot down.

Website · #76 Postby **Brent** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:49 pm

#77 Postby **angelwing** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:50 pm

From Drudgereport:

A HIT! A missile launched from a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific hit the decaying U.S. spy satellite it was targeting 130 miles above Earth's surface..... Developing...

#78 Postby **feederband** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:50 pm

I'm bored again...Lets shoot another one down.. :grrr:

#79 Postby **brunota2003** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:51 pm

Wasnt this missile sent just to destroy the fuel tanks, and not the satellite itself? I thought it had a non-warhead tip?

#80 Postby **cycloneye** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:52 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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

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