Note: The report cites. in chronological order:
(a) Bill Gertz, China to Shoot at High Frontier; US Intelligence: China to conduct test of more powerful anti-satellite weapon capable of hitting GPS, spy satellites, but after US election/ Washington Free Beacon, Oct 16, 2012. http://freebeacon.com/china-to-shoot-at-high-frontier/
(China to test Dong-Ning-2 or DN-2 missile from a ground base, against a target 12,000 miles above the earth, which the report sometimes calls high-earth orbit and in one occasion, medium-earth orbit)
Quote: "High-earth orbit, also known as geosynchronous orbit, is the location of major communications and navigation satellites, which orbit at a distance of between 12,000 miles and 22,236 miles from earth. China’s last ASAT test in 2007 destroyed a low-earth orbit [FY-1C] weather satellite about 558 miles in space
"China conducted its most recent ASAT test on Jan 11 of that year [2010]. According to the cable [disclosed by WikiLeaks], an ASAT missile designated SC-19 was fired from China’s Korla Missile Test Complex and successfully intercepted a CSS-X-11 medium-range ballistic missile launched from the Shuangchengzi Space and Missile Center [双城子, 即酒泉卫星发射中心]. The two missiles were tracked by US missile warning satellites to an intercept point at an altitude of about 155 miles in space."
* On Jan 11, 2011 it was rumored that China also conducted a missile test, but neither US nor China would confirm it, much less disclose its outcome.
* There is no need to read the following two, except the quotation in (c).
(b) China Gearing Up for Anti-Satellite Test, Experts say; What kind of test it is and what the target might be is unclear, however. Space on NBCNews.com, Jan 4, 2013. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5036 ... _and_science-space/
* Space on NBCNews.com means a report published in Space.com is simultaneously published on NBCNews.com.
(c) Gregory Kulacki, Is January Chinese ASAT Testing Month? Union of Concerned Scientists UCS), Jan 4, 2013 http://allthingsnuclear.org/is-j ... asat-testing-month/
("The first media report [in Washington Free Beacon] on these rumors appeared in October. China’s Ministry of Defense challenged the information in that report, but in November contacts in China told us an announcement about an upcoming ASAT test was circulated within the Chinese government. We were unable to find a public statement confirming plans for a test in the Chinese media or on publicly accessible Chinese government websites. Then, just before Christmas, a high-ranking US defense official told us that the Obama administration was very concerned about an imminent Chinese ASAT test")