Hydrazine and the Upper Atmoshpere

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:01:12 GMT, in a place far, far away,
h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 02:45:10 -0800, in a place far, far away, William
Elliot made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 wrote:
On Mar 1, 3:10 am, William Elliot wrote:

No discussion was made about how easily three
ordinary missiles were converted to space warfare.

Incorrect. This was an existing capability. The missiles were already
modified for missile defense. No real changes were made other than
software

Oh, missile defense is dual use space war and missile defense system.

So it was a sitting duck test of missile defense systems.

Just how high can one of those missiles go?
Certainly not to geo-synch, but to ISS and low orbit satellites?

Yes.

Oh, guess I was mistaken. Apparently the missile just barely had the
impulse to get to that altitude/velocity.

Oberg has a long piece at The Space Review today debunking a lot of
the media (and other) myths surrounding this:

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1073/1