Due to questionable weather conditions yesterday, US Navy officials were not sure if their plan to shoot down a rogue US spy satellite would be able to be carried out on Wednesday. But the weather conditions cleared up well enough for the mission to proceed.

The USS Lake Erie in the Pacific launched a Raytheon Co. heat-seeking missile at the 5,000-pound satellite. President Bush had approved the mission last week, citing the potential danger the satellite and its 1,000-pounds of toxic fuel could cause if it crashed to earth.

The Navy shot two missiles up at the satellite, which were positioned so that only small remnants of the satellite would fall back to earth in the Pacific Ocean. According to a senior US defense official, everything went as planned.

Of course we have some awesome video footage of the event, which you can check out here: