The Boeing Delta 2 rocket successfully launches NASA's NASA's Swift gamma-ray observatory into space to detect the most powerful explosions in the universe. Photo: Carleton Bailie/Boeing (From Spaceflight Now)From Danger Room:
An American missile-warning satellite has died, more than 22,000 miles up. So now, the U.S. is sending a pair of mini-spacecraft on a top secret operation to investigate, Craig Covault reports for Spaceflight Now. If the mission is successful, analysts say, it'll have a global impact. Because the same technologies used to investigate a friendly, out-of-service satellite could also be used to help take out an enemy orbiter.
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My Comment: Will it work .... I guess we will have to wait and read what the Chinese and Russians have to say when this "test" is done. But apparently these satellites are "stealthy" and hard to monitor.
Hmmmmm .... how do you know when something has happened when you cannot see it.
Hmmmmm .... (again) .... No wonder so many people in the spook business are .... cough cough .... paranoid.