The ‘Splatellite’ project, in which US officials rammed a missile into a runaway satellite to prevent it from crashing into anything important, like people (see Great Beyond posting; news story; analysis – subscription required), was a complete success, according to Pentagon officials at a US Navy briefing. “None of the debris was larger than a football”, Rear Admiral Alan Hicks said. (Reuters) There have been no reports of any splattelite bits hitting Earth, he added.