THIS SHOULD PROVIDE SOME EXCITEMENT: “U.S. officials say the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March.”

UPDATE: Katie Granju: “Now this is the kind of thing that the U.S. military will be able to use in its recruiting campaign for the next decade. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be the sharpshooter who pushes the button that fires this missile?”

And here’s the full scoop from Aviation Week.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A useful quibble on language, from Rand Simberg: “You can’t ‘shoot down’ a satellite. In order to do so, you have to remove its momentum, so it falls out of orbit. All you can really do (at least with something as crude as a missile) is break it up into smaller pieces.” Those, of course, are much more likely to burn up before reaching the ground.