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Video: Watch the spy satellite go boom

The USS Lake Erie scored a direct hit at 10:26pm ET last night on the failing spy satellite, leaving little else behind but pieces “nothing larger than a football,” Pentagon officials said today.Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an expert on military space technologies, said the government has a “high degree of confidence” that the missile launched last night hit exactly where intended.But forget all that, we all want to see the satellite go boom. Sure, the video is a little grainy, but Cartwright is kind enough to slow down the footage so we get the full “impact” (ha! get it?).[via Engadget]Watch the video after the jump…
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