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INVENTORY OF LOW-ALTITUDE SATELLITES 现存的低轨人造卫星
Each square equals one satellite 每个方块相当于一颗人造卫星
(红色方块)Military,intelligence 军事、情报卫星
(黄色方块)Communication 通信卫星
(灰色方块)Science,weather and other 科技、气象和其他卫星
550 miles above Earth 离地面550英里
Altitude of destroyed Chinese satellite 被摧毁的中国卫星的高度
Satellites are charted at the approximate altitude when they are nearest Earth 图表中的卫星是其近地点的大约高度
Moving Targets 移动目标
In shooting down one of its own weather satellites,orbiting 540 miles above Earth,在击中自己的高度为540英里的气象卫星后,
China became the third country(after the United States and Soviet Union)to test an antisatellite weapon successfully.
中国继美国、苏联之后成为成功测试反卫星武器的第三个国家。
That means China could be able to hit more than 300 satellites owned and operated by corporations and governments,including many military imaging satellites that orbit Earth at lower altitudes.
那就意味着中国能够击中300颗以上包括属各国政府和公司所有和经营的卫星,包括许多低轨军事拍照卫星。
DAVID CONSTANTINE (记者的名字)
Ground level 地面(地平)
Source:Union of Concerned Scientists 数据来源:科学家关怀社会联盟
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