Page 2 - Weaponizing Space News Today

Just as you saw in the thriller "gravity" space jump traveling at more than 20 times the speed of sound is flat-out deadly. >> ahh! >> a piece just 4 inches across packs the munch of an suv traveling at 70 miles an hour. >> then, six years later, china made a far stealthier advance in weaponizing space. agis operators initially observed the experiment in chinese, experimenting shadowing a second smaller chinese satellite, until one day, that second satellite disappeared. >> we saw the approach, ...

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...