An American missile reduces spy satellite as small as a football
The American missile impacted the spy satellite with toxic fuel and reduced it to ball-sized chunks, but the Pentagon said that there is not a 100% guarantee the fuel tank has been destroyed, an official spokesman said Thursday.
“Thus far, we have seen nothing larger than a football”, James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared during a press conference.
“We also have a high degree of confidence that we also got the tank… we are working our way throughout that, we will not be at a point where we can say for sure”, he said.
A missile launched from a US Navy ship hit the old American spy satellite that was drifting toward the Earth. According to the Government, the operation was executed to avoid problems with a satellite falling to Earth with potentially hazardous fuel.
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