USA-193 Space Intercept Controversy

• NEW! EXCLUSIVE email exchanges, Yousaf Butt and Nicholas Johnson
• Five myths about the satellite smash-up
• 03/03/2008 - The Space Review: Sense, nonsense, and pretense about the destruction of USA 193
• "USA-193" -- The "Armored Toxic Iceberg" Headed Our Way (Feb 14, 2008)
• 'Mars-96' -- Russian Plutonium Hits Bolivia (the Washington/Moscow Coverup)
• "Space Things That Fall to Earth" (Air & Space magazine, 2004)
• Russia's Radioactive Falling Spy Satellites
• Visual Observations of STS-72 Entry Fireball
• Russians Dump Space Hydrazine on Kazakhstan
• Biggest Falling Space Object Ever: Russia's Failed 'Battlestar'
• Cosmic Log (Feb 29, 2008) SATELLITE SMASH WAS FINE-TUNED IN FLIGHT
• "Frozen Hydrazine -- Media Misrepresentations"
• IEEE Spectrum (Aug 5): "Hydrazine Hazard Was Genuine"
• NASA 'Tank Survivability' White Paper
• Skywatchers See Man-Made Meteor Shower
• NASA Risk Assessment Methodology

August 2008: Debate gets sharper

• 08/25/08 - The Space Review: Assessing the hazards of space hydrazine, and the media reportage of it
• 08/19/08 - Peter Brown: "Shooting Down A Satellite: A Prudent Public Health Measure?" (extensive discussion comments by Oberg)
• 09/08 - Atlantic Monthly: "How preparations for tomorrow's satellite wars could ruin life as we know it today", by Guy Gugliotta (Washington Post space reporter)
  Oberg reply to 'Atlantic' article (coming soon)
• 08/21/08 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Technical comments on the U.S. satellite shootdown, by Yousaf Butt
  Oberg reply to Yousaf Butt
• 08/23/08 - WIRED:"Danger Room -- What's Next in National Secirity", by Noah Shachtman
  NASA Study Casts Some Doubt on Sat Shootdown (extensive comments/ contribution by Oberg)
• Nicholas Johnson (NASA) United Nations explanation of intercept rationale
  

• "October 15, 2004 -- Falling Chinese satellite smashes through roof of apartment in Penglai, Sichuan, showing that 'unlikely' space-related events still can happen.