USA Navy Satellite Shootdown
February 21, 2008 – 1:06 pm | by Michael JohnsonThis is video of the U.S. Navy successfully shooting down a damaged spy satellite February 20, 2008. See more DoD video clips at http://www.dodvclips.mil and at http://www.youtube.com/user/DODvClips.
This second video is from a press conference announcing the success.
We talked about this last night on the What Would Jesus Podcast. And you can read more about the Navy Intercepting Non-Functioning Satellite. Pretty cool stuff.
A minor point but a source of local pride is that the USS Lake Erie and the USS Decatur, two of the three ships involved in coordinating the attack on the satellite, were built at Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. My home town.
