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>> i would say that the wake-up call really was when the chinese tested their anti-satellite weapon against their own satellite. a clear demonstration that the technology was there in the hands of the chinese, anyway. >> a wake-up call, both because it represented an ominous step towards weaponizing space, and because it immediately added thousands of pieces of debris to earths orbits, each piece a potential satellite or spacecraft killer. >> man down. >> just as you saw in the thriller "gravity...

If russias launches of those potential attack satellites were the space equivalents of surgical strikes, chinas 2007 space shot was a sledgehammer. that year, the chinese launched a massive space kill vehicle, similar to this launch, viking one of its own satellites and blasting it, literally, into thousands of pieces. >> i would say that the wake-up call really was when the chinese tested their anti-satellite weapon against their own satellite. a clear demonstration that the technology was ther...