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Navy Blast Defense Satellite
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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:38 AM UTC
Ahoy mates!

The US Navy blast the falling defense satellite last night.

Check out the rest of the story.

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Thanks!
later...Gator
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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:48 AM UTC
Bravo Zulu to the Lake Erie!!

I wonder if they are going to paint a satellite on their bridge wing for that one.

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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 02:18 AM UTC
That is mighty impressive. 130 miles up and going 17,000 MPH in a polar orbit. Only took the missile 3 minutes to get there. That's just a bit under a mile a second.
Spiffy

Shaun

/Have have grainy video up on Fox News' website for anyone that can't wait till the get home from work
// The Air Force did it air to air in 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 07:15 AM UTC
I think it would be really funny to paint a satalite on the Bridge... How many ships have that honor and oppurtunity.
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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 07:34 AM UTC
When a ship gets a drug bust the paint a marjuana leaf on their bridge wing.

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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 08:07 AM UTC
That was a cool news story to view this morning. Seeing the small dot of light that was the satellite then it turned into a giant cloud of expanding debri.....too cool!
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Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12:12 PM UTC
If you missed it, here is the CNN clip in You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FLZC8FDRfk

This clip has nice shots of the ship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbBc_xrJWwE

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