Russia made a new ASAT (Anti-Satellite) test. This test is made by using debris that is launched against the trajectory of the target satellite. This kind of ASAT weapon is simplest as possible. The last stage of the rocket will load by using metal balls or other debris.
Then that debris will launch against the target satellite by using the small detonator behind that ammunition. The ASAT tests are the new demonstration of the will to create weapons that deny the use of satellites.
The satellites have many missions in the military world like targeting, locating, and communication. If the ASAT destroys GPS (or GLONASS), recon and communication satellites. That thing will make military operations more difficult than they would be. The nuclear forces would not have their launching codes if those satellites are destroyed.
And also drone swarms and smart GPS-controlled weapons will be useless if the communication and GPS shut down. The other targets for the killer satellites would be the large orbital laser satellites. The megawatt-class orbital lasers like Russian Polyus could be the thing that wanted to knock out. The thing is that almost every satellite in the world is a killer satellite.
Killer satellites would be the normal communication satellites that are intercepting targets by using two-polar radio rays. In that case, the electric arc will damage the target. Or the electric arcs will cover the area by using plasma. And that kind of system can deny the communication between the ground station and killer satellites.
The killer satellites are interesting tools. There are many types of planned weapons that can use in space. One of them is the X-ray laser. The X-ray laser is the neutron warhead where is the laser element inside it. That kind of laser can have enough power to knock out the military satellites. But the neutron weapon can also have an air core.
That core will increase the EMP ability of the neutron weapon. And it can knock out many satellites. The most capable systems in the killer-satellites are the DEW (Directed Energy Weapons). If we are thinking of the killer satellites in the point of view that they are meant to destroy only other satellites.
Those satellites can have machine guns or centrifugal-rail guns. The centrifugal gun is easy to connect to a magnetic accelerator. And those systems don't need very much power for destroying other satellites is not need very much power.
They would not need megawatt-class laser or microwave systems. The needed thing is that they would only cause damages to the targeted satellite. The laser ray can destroy a satellite simply by making a hole in it. And then that laser ray would destroy the internal electronics of the targeted satellites.
https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-outraged-by-destructive-russian-anti-satellite-test-that-endangered-space-station-crew/
Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/ASAT_Weapon_Conception.jpg
Comments
Post a Comment