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Updates, from New Scientist Mag

Comment comment by PowerPointSamurai on 20 January 2007

New Scientist has three updates to this story.

The first describes the test and claims that it used simple technology. Since the US and Soviet Union conducted similar tests around 30 years ago, that's certainly plausible. Incidentally, this has started to generate an uproar because of the space debris (the second New Scientist article). That's why the US and Soviet Union stopped ASAT tests in the first place, not because we feared the other would take our satellites out. Finally, China is trying to hand-wave the whole thing away by saying "There's no need to feel threatened about this, " Jianchao told journalists. "We are not going to get into any arms race in space."

Right......

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RE: Updates, from New Scientist Mag by Anonymous :: NR0

Someone launches a hunk of metal into space and then, knowing where it is, hits it with a rocket and suddenly it's an "arms race in space". Ridiculous!

Posted 21 January 2007, Hide, Parent, Reply