US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test

Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by sbierwagen on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:31AM (#25134087)

1.) I don't know of any ASAT missile that can hit satellites in GEO. Because,

2.) All reconnaissance satellites are in much lower orbits. GEO is 35,786km. Huanjing, PRC's military radar sats, are at 650km. USA-234 is at 1,107km.

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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by jeffbee on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:26AM (#25137782)

USA's big demonstration of its anti-satellite capability was at only 250km. Sandbagged, perhaps, but we don't know. Again I feel it is much, much more likely that both sides will simply try to take over the other side's space assets, rather than using kinetic anti-satellite weapons that litter space with tiny chunks of garbage.

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