According to a spokesman for the National Security Council, the ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile knocked an old Chinese weather satellite from its orbit about 537 mile above Earth.

• 据一位联邦安全会议发言人说，该陆基中程弹道导弹摧毁了在离地面537英里轨道上运行的一枚中国旧的气象卫星。