[FPSPACE] ChiComs announced ASAT? Don't think so.

[mattwriter at aol.com]

One thing I wonder... is the Chinese ASAT all home-grown, or, if you could take the Chinese ASAT apart, do you think you'd find any technological heritage copied from the minisatellite technology Surrey has sold to China?  I don't mean to criticize Surrey, a great company with only good intentions, but UK export restrictions on satellite technology are much looser than those of the US, and it will be interesting to find out if the Chiense took unfair advantage.  
 
 Rgards,
Matt Bille
 
 
 
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Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] ChiComs announced ASAT? Don't think so.


Ah. Well, here in Oak Ridge Tennessee, we call that a *SWAG* (
*scientific* wild-ass guess).

Robert

PS. There's been some more analysis on the ASAT which I haven't had
time to write up yet. Suffice to say the booster and payload were
more sophisticated and capable than I first imagined. (Though what I
described would have been perfectly feasible.)


Jonathan McDowell <jcm at head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Robert wrote:
>> well as a nontrivial elevation of environmental risk (I think our
>> own Jonathan McDowell said "doubling" in that online interview) 

>Yeah, but that was a total WAG based on no calculation whatsoever :-)



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