American Satellite No Longer a Threat

    "By all accounts this was a successful mission," Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Monday, referring to Wednesday's operation of taking down of a faulty satellite with a rocket missile.

    The mission consisted in hitting the fuel tank containing half a ton of hydrazine, a dangerous chemical, that migh pose hazard to people on Earth if crashed on the gorund.

    On Monday 25th Feb., Pentagon issued a defininitive statement positively confirming that there is no more hazard on that part. The debris analysis gives a high amount of confidence that the tank was distroyed and the hydrazine has been dissipated.

    An airforce base in California is still tracking about 3,000 pieces of debris, all smaller than 30 cm in diameter, which will most probably all have burned down before hitting the ground.