An Anti-Satellite Test by any Other Name...

February 19, 2008 - 7:00pm

Later today, the U.S. Navy is going to shoot down an old U.S. spy satellite. But why? Three rationales are floating out there and New America's Jeffrey Lewis tells the Today Show's Jim Miklaszewski that while safety and secrets may be the domestic rationale, China and Russia see this as a pure test of our anti-satellite capability.

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