Yeah, we did luck out that the Sovs didn't get their laser into orbit. It could have caused no end of damage to our satellites- though I'm sure that the Orbiters would have had the capacity to launch a strike against it... whether we were told about it or not. Lots of things could fit into that cargo bay- including an mass-quantity type kinetic-kill weapon.
And I have to laugh at the placement of the Iranian 'satellite' as well- wonder if the thing is still working.
No telling how much dust it would have sucked up there. Looks like they won't be too big a danger.
Either way, we've missed the fact that the Chinese plan to starve millions of their slave laborers in order to get to the moon and beyond. Perhaps the Chinese launching a moon mission is what it will take...
