Are We Targeting Your Satellites?

Space is full of man made stuff zipping around and performing all sorts of important work for us. There are lots of satellites that are scientific and civilian, there's the space station,. And a lot of people think that's mostly what happens up in space. So when russia destroys this satellite, is it sort of a warning that to the united states or other countries, that if we want to, we could knock your satellites out of the sky and shut down your communications? Yes.