ON NOW. BBC4 Horizon - Space Junk

[Gina]

As per title - quite interesting.

[ronin]

Little unfair at the start on China. They said China blew up one of it's own satellites to basically prove they could. What I seem to recall which was not said was that China used a rocket to target a Chinese satellite but after the US did the same to a US satellite.

The US were the first to show they could target and take out a satellite, so China showed that they had the capability as well not too long afterwards. The US bit of doing it first was missed out.

 

[Charic]

Followed by the New Sky at Night! Guide to the Galaxy.