Remember when the Chinese were shooting down that satellite and the big argument was over whether they were polluting the earth's orbit with dangerous space junk? I wonder why we're not hearing the same argument here.
Because this one is already on its way down, and so the debris is unlikely to remain in orbit.
They want to shoot it for two reasons that I can see:
1) to prevent China/Russia/anyone from getting their hands on
sensitive technology that might be onboard, and
2) to make it more likely to just
burn up on reentry, rather than poke a hole in the roof of the White House.
Cheers
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