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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. agi's 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, we saw the larger spacecraft come close to the smaller spacecraft, and then we no longer saw the sm...

If russia's launches of those potential attack satellites were the space equivalents of surgical strikes, china's 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 there in the hands of the chinese, anyway. >> a wake-up call, both because it represented an ominous s...