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Firing a missile to destroy a stricken space vehicle averts potential risk to people -- and eliminates any danger of its falling into the wrong hands
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Cockup rather than conspiracy at NRO In an expensive technical mishap, a brace of top-secret American spy satellites was fired into incorrect orbits last Friday.â¦
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The nation's storm forecasters are badly divided over claims that an aging satellite leaves America vulnerable
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If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other 'space weather' phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments damaged and, in very rare and extreme cases, spacecraft may even be lost.
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By Anonymous  Broader Space Arms Control Is Needed  As Geoffrey Forden ("After China's Test: Time for a Limited Ban on Anti-Satellite Weapons," Anns Contrat Tbday, Mardi 2007) indicates, space arms control has been stalled for many years, primarily by US.
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Military opt to act...now crash imminent over US The US military is putting into effect contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could actually hit North America.â¦
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By Greg AutryChina recently shot down an aging Chinese weather satellite -- a signal that China will not abide by the doctrine of U.S. space superiority outlined in the new National Space Policy released in October by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Could contain hazardous materials: just like The Andromeda Strain A large US spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials have said. The satellite, which is now out of control, could contain hazardous materials, and it's unknown where on our planet it might come down.â¦
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Space-watchers figure out where the Navy will try to shoot down a dying satellite -- and where the debris cloud is likely to go afterwards.
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A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down an out-of-control US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
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Officials will 'mitigate consequences' of debris landing on other countries from satellite it plans to shoot down
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&quot;the crisis is now,&quot; President Bush said recently -- is the domestic version of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Could it be that I am hearing the same sense of false urgency?
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - An important test of the United States&#39; fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch on cue from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- Disappointed Air Force officials say it will be Thursday "at the very best" before their Minotaur I rocket will blast off here for space.
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A US defense official said Thursday that the Pentagon plans to shoot down a malfunctioning US spy satellite before it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere next month.
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It's important to debate Canada's war &nbsp;mission in Afghanistan. It's a legitimate and necessary debate. It's a debate occurring in all the NATO countries now being asked to send more troops. Most of these countries, with the exception of Poland and Canada, have resisted further commitments. As in Canada, there is broad questioning within their populations about the core wisdom and merits of this mission. This is not, or as some are suggesting, a re-staging of the Second World War. The fate of the Western world is not hanging in the balance.
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Whatever's going on, China and Russia condemn it Russia and China have expressed concern over US plans to fire interceptors at a malfunctioning American spy satellite in coming weeks before it plunges fully into the Earth's atmosphere. Meanwhile, it has emerged that Washington launched a crash effort to destroy the spacecraft early in the New Year, less than a fortnight after it was launched and failed to come online.â¦