Deploy Patriot Missiles In Okinawa To Kill North Korean Satellite?

Ok, wait. Okinawa is about 600 miles from the path of this launch. Why not use Akita Prefecture, which would be right in line with the North Korean missile?

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120321a1.html
Better yet, send a UN delegation to verify it's just a satellite, and let them shoot it?

Rosat, Coming In Faster

Tracking ROSAT Live

I have been noting the decrease in altitude with every low point in the orbit (it's not a perfectly circular orbit).

When it gets below 95 miles in altitude, things should start moving quicker.

Russian Rocket Falls Short...Literally

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11922496

That sucks, these things are damned expensive.  They were to be part of system called GLONASS, similar to GPS.

Big US Spy Satellite

The US National Reconnaissance Office launched a spy satellite Sunday evening.  These Boeing Delta 4 Heavy Lift rockets are a mother!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11809457

The Alphabet From Satellite

http://rhettdashwood.com.au/16575

Too much time on your hands dude....

Satellites Collide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7885051.stm

It's not a shock to me, all the crap we have in orbit around the planet is staggering. Maybe they will all crash into each other like a Nascar race pile-up.