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Re: US plans to shoot down Satellite
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
Or it's nuclear powered and they don't want reactor fragmets, coolant and fuel raining down from the upper atmosphere. The old Russian Cosmos RORSats used to eject their reactor cores before (controlled) de-orbit but this wouldn't be an option if the satellite was dead.
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From the article
"the likelihood that the satellite upon descent to the Earth's surface could release much of its 1,000lb plus (454 kg) of its hydrazine fuel as a toxic gas..
....If the hydrazine tank did burst, the danger zone would be an area covering the size of two football pitches. He said that blowing the satellite up would disperse the hydrazine harmlessly in space, leaving only small-scale satellite debris to fall harmlessly to Earth."
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