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Published online 21 February 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.615
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US missile slams into runaway satellite
Military '80-90%' certain that toxic fuel tank was successfully broken up.
The US Pentagon has successfully fired a missile into an out-of-control US reconnaissance satellite, it announced today. The National Reconnaissance Office lost contact with the satellite shortly after it launched in December 2006, and Pentagon officials feared that the unused, toxic fuel could pose a health risk should the fuel tank survive the satellite's imminent fall back to Earth.
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US government never tolerate any new technologies unless they achieved this
The George W. Bush administration frequently lies. The hydrazine gas wasn't the reason for shooting down the satellite.
I await with interest the news of Russia downing a satellite, I wonder what their excuse will be