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Media Botches Story on Obama’s NASA Plans

January 6, 2009 - 12:35 am - by Rand Simberg
Jeff
2009-01-06 16:59:28

AlexinCT is confusing a direct-ascent ASAT (clearly demonstrated by the Chinese two years ago) with a co-orbital ASAT (for which there is no clear evidence of development by the Chinese). A direct-ascent ASAT, moreover, would not be effective against spacecraft in MEO (GPS) or GEO (communications).