[AR] Re: India shoots down satellite, declares itself a space power .

  • From: Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:30:40 -0700

On 2019-03-28 12:57, Henry Spencer wrote:

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, Ben Brockert wrote:
It was under 300 km and it was head-on kinetic. This is nearly the
most benign ASAT anyone has ever done.

While this is true, it's still not great.  In particular, it's *not*
impossible for a fragment from such a test to end up in a long-lived
high orbit -- rather less likely than for a test higher up, yes, but
not impossible.

How does that happen without a second impulse? Another collision?

After China and the US demonstrated ASAT recently, it's irresponsible for any spacefaring country to not demonstrate this ability.

Perhaps you could elaborate?  I'm having difficulty understanding this
sentence, unless perhaps that "not" was a typo.  As written, it sounds
like any responsible airfaring country should demonstrate its ability
to explode an atmospheric nuclear test, because... well, because why?

Henry

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