Re: United States to Shoot down it’s own Satellite
Ali, the after effects are actually pretty good. By breaking the thing up into football size pieces far more of it will burn up on re-entry. The Hydrazine tank apparently exploded and burned up, with the fumes disbursing 100 miles above Earth.
The real open question which nobody is talking about is whether or not there was a very small nuclear reactor aboard to provide electricity. Most sources say no, but since it never extended solar panels, nobody really knows. Additionally US technology will not be sold on Ebay to the Russians or the Chinese.
There are lots of independent space observers who will be able to verify the debris field, this thing was coming down anyway, it is just coming down in very small pieces, and the current path is over mostly oceans and sparcely inhabited areas.
Here is a great web site that independently monitors military communications: