The Navy Shot Down a Satellite to Break One Tank Inside It

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In February 2008, the U.S. Navy shot down a falling American satellite, USA-193, to break one tank inside it: about a thousand pounds of hydrazine fuel, frozen solid, which NASA expected to survive the fall and break open on the ground.

With no power aboard, there had been no heaters. Breathed in, hydrazine affects the lungs much as chlorine or ammonia does, and on the ground it could spread over about two football fields. Five years earlier, a similar tank had survived reentry when the shuttle Columbia was lost. On Feb. 20, 2008, northwest of Hawaii, the cruiser USS Lake Erie fired a single missile, and the satellite broke apart.

The next morning at the Pentagon, Gen. James Cartwright laid out the evidence: a fireball, a vapor cloud, and signs of hydrazine picked up by sensors on aircraft. He was eighty to ninety percent sure the tank had been breached, and called it his opinion. On Feb. 25, the Pentagon announced that officials were confident the tank had been destroyed. No debris had been reported landing on Earth.

Built from the Pentagon's briefing transcripts and news releases, FEMA's memorandum, NASA's Orbital Debris Quarterly News, and Nicholas Johnson's later account in Space Policy.

The full documentary on Operation Burnt Frost, roughly 13 minutes: https://youtu.be/b59jCqAyd6Q

Sources
· Records — U.S. Department of Defense news briefing transcripts, Feb. 14, 21 and 25, 2008 · news releases 0125-08 and 0146-08 · FEMA Disaster Operations Directorate memorandum, Feb. 19, 2008
· NASA — Orbital Debris Quarterly News, Vol. 12, Issue 4, Oct. 2008
· Account — Dwayne A. Day, The Space Review, 2021, quoting Nicholas L. Johnson, Space Policy
· Photo and video — DoD photo by U.S. Navy (DVIDS 9216987) · U.S. Navy video (DVIDS 35427)

The carved 3D scenes are illustrative reconstructions built from the records, not footage of the events. The narration is an AI-generated voice. The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.

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