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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Satellite Destroyed; Debris Deemed Not Hazardous


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A Standard Missile-3 (pictured) that was launched from the U.S. Navy's U.S.S. Lake Erie cruiser on Wednesday, February 20, 2008, hit its target, a broken spy satellite that was headed toward Earth after losing control in 2006.

A military official said Thursday that debris from the obliterated U.S. spy satellite is being tracked over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans but there does not appear to be enough of it to cause damage.

Photograph courtesy the U.S. Navy