You can see video of the impact- it looks like the missile hit the payload, not the balloon, and spattered it. In light of comments about self destruct, this ma

You can see video of the impact- it looks like the missile hit the payload, not the balloon, and spattered it. In light of comments about self destruct, this may have been an effort to disrupt mechanisms that would have completely incinerated sensitive material by instead breaking the sensitive material into pieces