China expressed phony concern about the successful strike on the disabled satellite:
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Within hours of the reported success, China said it was on the alert for possible harmful fallout from the shootdown and urged Washington to promptly release data on the action.

“China is continuously following closely the possible harm caused by the U.S. action to outer space security and relevant countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a news conference in Beijing. “China requests the U.S. to fulfill its international obligations in real earnest and provide to the international community necessary information and relevant data in a timely and prompt way so that relevant countries can take precautions.”

China is still smarting from all the international criticism about its secret and ill-advised attack on an aging weather satellite last year. The worrisome debris cloud created by the Chinese antisatellite missile test continues to threaten more than 800 operating satellites and will do so for up to 100 years.

The Wall Street Journal contrasts the U.S. operation , calling it "A Shot in the Light:"

Contrast this operation with what happened a year ago January, when Beijing surprised the world by shooting down one of its weather satellites in a test of its antisatellite capabilities. Not only was the test unannounced, but it took China days to concede that it had happened. Because the satellite was destroyed at an altitude of approximately 850 kilometers, it left countless hazardous particles drifting in orbit that could harm future space flights.

The Chinese and Russian complaints are tied to broader political gamesmanship over the "militarization of space" and efforts to get Washington to sign an international treaty restricting space defenses. China appears to have an antisatellite missile program of its own, while Moscow opposes U.S. efforts to place missile-defense sites in Eastern Europe.
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But the technology on display here is important in part because of Chinese and Russian actions. The U.S. has missile-defense systems in place in Japan, for example, to counter North Korea -- a dictatorship that wouldn't exist without Beijing's support. Russia and China are friendly with Iran, which is rapidly developing long-range missile capabilities. If anything, the U.S. needs to spend more on such technology.

Meanwhile, Washington has gone out of its way both to alert other countries of this operation and to avoid the kind of dangers posed by Beijing's last launch. The satellite will be hit at a low altitude to ensure that most of the debris re-enters either to burn up during descent or to land in the ocean. The Pentagon hosted a press conference last week to discuss the diplomatic and technological aspects of the operation. A military spokesman said this week that a press statement will be issued "within an hour" of the missile launch.

This isn't the first time that the U.S. has destroyed a satellite. In 1985, a U.S. F-15 fighter jet fired a Vought ASM-135 ASAT missile which intercepted the Solwind P78-1, an aging gamma ray research satellite. According to CNN, the fact that we have had such a capability for over 20 years is evidence that the U.S. acted Wednesday strictly to guard against the prospect of a potential disaster.
Report: USA 193 fragments re-entry observed from Prince George, BC
From: Eric Briggs (ebriggs@sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 05:48:52 UTC

A message posted on the mailing list of the Royal Astronomical Society of
Canada says in part:

>at approx. 19:43 PDT while observing the lunar eclipse at the PGAO (53 45'
29" N 122 50' 56" W) a group of
>about 30 people, PG Centre members and public, witnessed what we assume was
the demise of the spy
>satellite USA 193.

>Many debris trails were witnessed moving from south-west to north-east at
high altitude. One was especially
>bright and long lasting. I can recall about 6 bright trails and 15 fainter
ones.

>The debris trails seemed to come in "waves" with the first wave being
brighter than the debris that followed
>behind it. The trails seemed to be in a fan shape with the trails being
wider apart in the north-east than they
>were in the south-est.

>Brian Battersby, Prince George Centre RASC

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPY-SAT DEBRIS: If Pentagon estimates are correct, almost all of the debris from shattered spy satellite USA 193 has now re-entered Earth's atmosphere. A group of sky watchers in western Canada may have witnessed some of the fragments about ten minutes after the Feb. 20th Navy missile strike. "The debris seemed to come in waves ... with about 6 bright trails and 15 fainter ones," according to their report. More debris may yet re-enter along the satellite's former flight path, but the chances of a USA 193 meteor shower are declining. [comment]

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