Satellite Shoot out


	Satellite Shoot out

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8d1525fc-4522-4b4f-905b-f2add95d4963/04A004D1-E976-47FB-BE0D-1ABFFE68C954/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html" href="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/FF171F1D-A4A4-4B13-BC32-C554FCECB7A0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="355" valign="top" align="left"><FONT size="3" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#1b4872"><B>Satellite Shoot Down: How It Will Work </B><BR /><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#333333"><B>By <A href="http://www.space.com/php/contactus/feedback.php?r=jbr">Jeanna Bryner</A></B><BR />Staff Writer<BR /></FONT></FONT><FONT size="1" face="arial,helvetica" color="#330066">posted: 19 February 2008<BR />12:19 pm ET</FONT>
</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html"><SPAN>The U.S. Navy could shoot down an errant spy satellite as early as Wednesday night. Now a new computer model shows what might happen. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html"><SPAN>On Feb. 14,
senior U.S. government officials at a Pentagon press briefing described a <A href="http://www.space.com/news/080214-sn-destroy-spysat.html">Defense
Department plan</A> to try and shoot down the defunct satellite, after becoming
convinced that the spacecraft's toxic hydrazine fuel posed an unacceptable risk
to people on the ground. The attempted strike could come <A href="http://www.space.com/spacenews/080219-sn-spysat-shoot.html">Wednesday evening</A>. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html"><SPAN>With this
press information, computer modelers Bob Hall and Tim Carrico at Analytical
Graphics, Inc. (AGI) put together a <A href="http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080219-satellite">computer-generated
simulation</A> of the missile-satellite collision. The model shows a
hypothetical deployment of U.S Navy ships in the Northern Pacific Ocean and the
firing of a Standard Missile 3 at the failed satellite.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/04A004D1-E976-47FB-BE0D-1ABFFE68C954/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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