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Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite

February 21, 2008 12:27 PM PST

Bull's-eye. The missile hits the 5,000-pound satellite with a resulting fireball that indicated the toxic fuel was safely ignited in space. This image was taken from a U.S. Navy video.

Photo by U.S. Department of Defense

Caption by Jonathan Skillings

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