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Do you think anyone else can really do this or send a man to the moon?
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Want to call? I'm in the book. Want to argue....First explain the square root of negative one....lol
Yes it was really unbelievable that they were able to push the appropriate button on the console to make the missile go off. I agree it is great technology that we can hit a small target outside of the earths atmosphere. P.S. I can talk smack about the button pushers as I retired after 20 years in the Navy as a Machinest Mate. P.S.S. Congratulations KingTut on your sons appointment to the U.S. Naval Acadamy
We are not the 1st country to bring down a satellite with a missile......... China shot down one of their old satellites a while back in a missile test.
We are not the 1st country to bring down a satellite with a missile......... China shot down one of their old satellites a while back in a missile test.
That was last year.
We did it the first time in 1985. So we were the first... again.
The $60 Million MissileWhy is it so expensive to shoot down a spy satellite?
By Michelle Tsai Posted Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at 6:23 PM ET Standard Missile-3
A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a U.S. spy satellite that had been malfunctioning 130 miles above the Earth. The price tag for the endeavor has been pegged at upward of $30 million and even as high as $60 million, depending on the news report. Why did it cost so much money to shoot one missile?
They needed to reprogram the weapons. Once the orders were given on Jan. 4 to destroy the satellite, the Department of Defense had just a few weeks to outfit two Navy cruisers—the USS Lake Erie and USS Decatur—with rejiggered Aegis defense systems and a total of three SM-3 missiles. Only one missile was fired on Wednesday, but the other two had to be ready, in case a second or third attempt was needed. Since each SM-3 missile costs $9.5 million, the tab for the munitions alone adds up to almost $30 million.
Customizing the Aegis system and missiles for the satellite mission was a major expense. The technologies were originally designed to intercept ballistic missiles using heat sensors, but the spy satellite was cooler in temperature. To account for this difference, the three SM-3's needed new software, hardware, and sensors, and the launching systems had to be given new sensors and software updates. The bulk of this task would have been assigned to high-priced contractors—like Raytheon, the maker of the missile, or Lockheed Martin, maker of the Aegis system. And it would have taken a large crew of engineers to rewrite the code, debug it, and test it over and over again—all within three weeks. The stakes were also higher than they would be for a commercial software release, as the system had to work perfectly in a 10-second window; there was no opportunity to fix problems with software patches later on. (Before this week's launch, the same anti-missile system had been successful on eight of 10 tries.)
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The $60 Million MissileWhy is it so expensive to shoot down a spy satellite?
By Michelle Tsai Posted Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at 6:23 PM ET Standard Missile-3
A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a U.S. spy satellite that had been malfunctioning 130 miles above the Earth. The price tag for the endeavor has been pegged at upward of $30 million and even as high as $60 million, depending on the news report. Why did it cost so much money to shoot one missile?
They needed to reprogram the weapons. Once the orders were given on Jan. 4 to destroy the satellite, the Department of Defense had just a few weeks to outfit two Navy cruisers—the USS Lake Erie and USS Decatur—with rejiggered Aegis defense systems and a total of three SM-3 missiles. Only one missile was fired on Wednesday, but the other two had to be ready, in case a second or third attempt was needed. Since each SM-3 missile costs $9.5 million, the tab for the munitions alone adds up to almost $30 million.
Customizing the Aegis system and missiles for the satellite mission was a major expense. The technologies were originally designed to intercept ballistic missiles using heat sensors, but the spy satellite was cooler in temperature. To account for this difference, the three SM-3's needed new software, hardware, and sensors, and the launching systems had to be given new sensors and software updates. The bulk of this task would have been assigned to high-priced contractors—like Raytheon, the maker of the missile, or Lockheed Martin, maker of the Aegis system. And it would have taken a large crew of engineers to rewrite the code, debug it, and test it over and over again—all within three weeks. The stakes were also higher than they would be for a commercial software release, as the system had to work perfectly in a 10-second window; there was no opportunity to fix problems with software patches later on. (Before this week's launch, the same anti-missile system had been successful on eight of 10 tries.)
Didn't even come close to $30M. For example, showing the costs of three missiles is moronic: the three missiles were already bought and paid for, their cost was irrelevant since they already existed. You CAN make a case that it will cost $10M to replace the fired missile, whoopie.
3-4 weeks = pretty much this was a software fix/mod, there was no time for hardware design and/or mods. $10M in 3-4 weeks? Not likely. Travel for... how many people to retrofit those ships, even at 10 people per ship (I believe there were three ships involved, not sure), but figure three ships x 10 people x $10K each travel costs and $20K each labor, still pretty far from millions and millions of $$.
Software mod = we can do this anytime we want, anyone wanna bet that this will be in the next block update?
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