Folks... really now, what is the reason to blow up your own satellite? No longer working? No longer have use for it? A developing country like China would obviously have to ask: what happens when we blow the thing up? What purpose does blowing it up have? Here's what I'm getting at, in case you missed it back in December Space Daily posted a good article about China's ability recover satellites... so, if your aim is peace, why test the ability to blow up a satellite... why not just recover it?
China Enhances Spacecraft Monitoring Network
China is beefing up its space-monitoring network, and will locate its central command system powered by sophisticated homegrown technology in north China's Xi'an city, according to an industry source.
Scientists at the center successfully recovered China's first satellite re-entry module on Nov. 29, 1975 -- three days after its launch -- making China the third country in the world to master the technology, following the former Soviet Union and the United States.
China has launched 22 recoverable satellites and got back 21 of them after 30 years of space technological development.
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