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Satellite shooting unneeded says scientist
Boston (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 The U.S. Navy's February missile shoot down of a spy satellite was unnecessary, a Harvard scientist and former NASA employee said. Yousaf Butt filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking for the National Air and Space Agency's re-entry threat analysis from the disabled USA-193 satellite. His conclusions contradict the government's official explanation that the satellite's hydrazine fuel tank posed a health hazard. Butt described government modeling as oversimplified and biased against likelihoods that the tank would have burned when re-entering the atmosphere. "The official study released so far certainly doesn't support the contention that the tank would have survived intact to the ground. In fact, despite its optimistic oversimplifications, the released study indicates that the tank would certainly have demised high up in the atmosphere" he wrote in the Aug. 21 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Military Space News at SpaceWar.com
Military Satellite Services Workshop To Be Held On September 22
Seoul, Korea (SPX) Aug 26, 2008Over the past decade, the APSCC Annual Satellite Conference and Exhibition, renowned as APSCC's flagship contribution to the satellite industry, has been providing a globally integrated platform that covers every sector of the satellite industry as well as a unique briefing and networking opportunity to the participants of the event. |
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