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Pentagon Says It Scored Direct Hit on Satellite

Debris from an obliterated US spy satellite is being tracking over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but it appears to be too small now to cause damage.  This after a Navy missile scored direct hit on the failing spacecraft. Gordon Lubold is Pentagon correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor .

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Debris from an obliterated US spy satellite is being tracking over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but it appears to be too small now to cause damage. This after a Navy missile scored direct hit on the failing spacecraft. Gordon Lubold is Pentagon correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

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      Warren Olney

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