[FPSPACE] Chinese antisatellite missile designers honored

[Allen Thomson]

This looks very interesting, but unfortunately the entire article is on a subscribers-only site. The following are snippets found in Google News summaries. If anyone has access to the SCMP, a summary of the article would be appreciated.

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South China Morning Post

Space weapons scientists honoured
Satellite zappers' award 'shows confident China'
Stephen Chen
Jan 10, 2009

The scientists behind the until-now secret military technology that two years ago helped a Chinese missile destroy a satellite in space were publicly honoured yesterday - a sign, some experts said, that China was becoming more open and assertive....

Three other Beijing-based space scientists confirmed to the Post that the technology was behind the anti-satellite missile. Another team of scientists, ...

Another team of scientists, from Beihang University, formerly the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, was also honoured yesterday for developing the sensors ...