#OTD in 2008, USS Lake Erie (CG 70) launched a modified Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) to destroy a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite during Operation Burnt Frost. It was feared that an uncontrolled re-entry of the satellite could release toxic hydrazine fuel.

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