A fact from Operation Burnt Frost appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193?
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Numerous satellites and upper stages containing substantial amounts of hydrazine have re-entered, including some in the US, with no claim of inordinate hazards. There is just no credible evidence that the satellite constituted a significant hazard. The claim was made that the hydrazine would be frozen. No thermal data to support this were presented. The tank would have been perforated or disrupted at some point during the entry and the hydrazine would have escaped and combusted or been dispersed.Danwoodard (talk) 19:39, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone know? The last figure I can see for the orbit was about 240km, but obviously it was decaying. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:47, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
