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Standard Missile 3 To Be Used To Shoot Down Satellite
The missile will be launched from a Navy ship. Vice Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff General James Cartwright says this is the first time anything like this has been tried. “This is the first time we’ve used a tactical missile to engage a spacecraft,” said Cartwright.
The satellite needs to be hit prior to entering the Earth’s atmosphere as it will be “next to impossible” once it is inside the atmosphere.
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