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Article: A new arms race in space? China's anti-satellite test.(China's anti-satellite test risks a new arms race in space)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2007
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There are better ways to manage China's space rivalry with America
IF THERE is to be a new arms race in space, China will be in it. Its belated admission that earlier this month it destroyed one of its own satellites--blowing it to smithereens by slamming a ballistic missile into it over 500 miles (800km) up in space--is China's way of saying that it will cede control of space to no one. The feat itself was not particularly impressive: both the United States and the then Soviet Union carried out similar space tests more than 20 years ago. But shooting down its own satellite shows that China could now blast someone else's out of the sky, too). Putting its marker ...