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San Diego Union-Tribune
February 17, 2008
HOUSTON – Military plans to shoot down a damaged U.S. spy satellite carrying toxic fuel won't concern the crew aboard the International Space Station, commander Peggy Whitson said yesterday.
The military hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week – just before it enters Earth's atmosphere – with a single missile fired from a Navy cruiser in the Pacific Ocean.
Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and French astronaut Leopold Eyharts will be in orbit 215 miles above Earth when the satellite is targeted. The satellite will be about 150 miles up when the shot is fired.
--Associated Press
February 17, 2008
HOUSTON – Military plans to shoot down a damaged U.S. spy satellite carrying toxic fuel won't concern the crew aboard the International Space Station, commander Peggy Whitson said yesterday.
The military hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week – just before it enters Earth's atmosphere – with a single missile fired from a Navy cruiser in the Pacific Ocean.
Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and French astronaut Leopold Eyharts will be in orbit 215 miles above Earth when the satellite is targeted. The satellite will be about 150 miles up when the shot is fired.
--Associated Press