The "Aerocycle" can be used as the source, for the next generation lightweight space probes.

"Aerocycle" could also be equipped  the laser-motors
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Kimmo Huosionmaa


The term laser-motor means the rocket motor, what uses lasers for boiling water or some other liquid in the tank, and this heat, what comes from lasers would replace the fire for making pressure in the rocket motor. In the distant future, the mankind would use the "Aerocycle"-style devices for investigating the distant planets and their moons. The NASA edition of "Aerocycle" would be useful in the use of astronauts on the moon and other planets. That futuristic edition would be used in the moon, by equipping it with laser-motors. This motor would work very effectively on the Moon. In this scenario, the tanks what are around the center device would be equipped with lasers, what would steam the water or some gas like the Ammoniac in the bottle below this device.


The main tank would be equipped with ventilation, what would release the steam for making the pushing force, and under the tanks would also be ventilation for stabilizing the device. And there could be motors at the end of the masts, what allows to drive this device in the vertically, and it would be suitable for the Moon trips, and the orbital operations. The astronaut would stand at the layer, and use the space suit. The "Space cycle" could be equipped with manipulators, and it could be used for long-range trips on the Moon and in the distant future, at the asteroid belt.


But when we are thinking this device as the instrument, what could be used for exploring the atmospheres of the Gas planets like Jupiter or Saturn and the missions in the atmosphere of the Titan moon, this device can operate by using the RTG-generator. This generator would rotate the wings of the helicopter, and when the device wanted to go to orbital journey for sending the samples of the surface, it would raise very high, by using very long rotor wings, and then this device would start the laser-rocket motor.


The propellant would be the tank from the Titan's ocean, and this device can rise in very high altitude, and after that starts the engine. After this, another probe would pick the test tube and fly to the Earth. Or this small device would open the mylar plate, and then start to create the electric arc after this device, and then those electrons could push the device to the long journey back to Earth. Who knows, what kind of devices would be used for this kind of trips, where the samples are taken from the distant planets and moons in the distant future.

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The “Sarmat” missile

"Sarmat" missile
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

“Sarmat” is nothing like any other ICBM. This weapon is mobilized version of the SS-18 (R36) missile, what was the largest thermonuclear weapon in the world. It has more warheads and capacity to raise those weapons in the orbital trajectory. This weapon is actually FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System”, what is tested by the Soviet Union and the possible USA in 1960’s. Those weapons have huge weapons load, what makes them very terrible. In those weapons is MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles) what can be targeted to same target or different places around the world. This kind of FOBS-weapons can send to orbital trajectory weeks or even years before shooting order.


They can play normal satellites, and when the order of action comes, the satellite would start to drop nuclear weapons to their targets. This eliminates the way to locate those weapons by using its communication signals as the tip. If those weapons could be located, there is the way to target them with high-altitude ASAT systems. The thing why those nuclear weapons would not locate very easily is that they can work with the normal satellites. And when those weapons are needed, the programs of the computers must only change, what makes those satellites the ultimate killers.


Those warheads are actually independently targeted and they can use like carpets, where all warheads would be put in the same place. But those FOBS weapons have the very frightened capacity, that they could be sent to the orbital trajectory, and then dropped one by one in many targets, what is separated from together. Also “Sarmat” can drop one warhead and leave other to MIRV-bus waiting for next target. Those weapons can be programmed to explode in the orbital trajectory, in the atmosphere or they can program to hit the ground in the line, and that kind of weapons can destroy even the command center of NORAD.


FOBS capacity makes that weapon so terrible. It can be used against highly mobile targets, and it can threat also U.S task fleet and submarines. Those weapons would be used with reconnaissance satellites, what are looking for “hard to find easy to kill” targets for that weapon. The capacity to use one warhead by one is because this weapon must find those highly mobile targets before it can take effect to them.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat

Picture 1.

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The advanced cruise missile systems are the most complicated things in the global operational area

X-37B during tests in  2012
(USAF photo)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The missile is very devastating and feared weapon, even if it doesn’t have the explosive warhead. The kinetic energy is also very devastating if the missile hits against their targets at the speed of  20 000 kilometers per hour. Normally modern military forces use bombers or tactical multirole fighters to carry the nuclear weapons to the targets because the strike can pull back. The missile launch is the end of the negotiations because when the intercontinental ballistic missile is launched the mission could not pull back, and the targets will be destroyed.

That would cost millions of lives because the enemy will make the counterstrike. The dark side of the space shuttle program is that kind of technology, what is used in the space shuttle can be used in the space bombers, what are actually the ICBM-missiles what can return to the base. The space shuttle can be converted to space bomber very easily. The cargo bay of the shuttle can load with the thermonuclear weapon.


Also, the cruise missiles can be formed as the space shuttles, and the new cheap and highly automatized miniature shuttles like X-37B could be the form of the new kind of cruise missiles, what can rise above the atmosphere and if the strike is not needed, can that missile return to the base. Those shuttles can use as the platforms in the many space projects, and one of them is very effective cruise missiles, what can be used in the operations for the national security. The return of those spacecraft can be made with the parachute, and they can also launch by the submarine launch missiles to the low earth orbital, where they can use as the threat for the enemies.


Also, miniature shuttles can collect the ICBM warheads from the orbital trajectory, and that will cause the revolution in the global way to think about the thermonuclear warfare. Those vehicles can also use the tracking devices for the warheads, and they can now strike against the fast-moving targets. Also if the warheads can connect to that space shuttle, those shuttles can help them maneuvers and also rise their altitude, and this way every single warhead has a capability to transfer as a FOBS-weapon.


The problem of the Fractional Orbital Bombardment systems is that those weapons can be hijacked by the space shuttles and also the service for those systems is very difficult. If the FOBS warhead is mounted to the X37B the weapon can be returned to the earth for service. If that operation will be done in the orbital trajectory, would every single telescope on the earth see those actions near the satellite, what is very easy to destroy with ASAT weapons, what can be installed to the Atlas rocket, what can raise that weapon even the highest trajectories, that be can imagine.

Why is high altitude rocket dangerous?

Titan II missile
(USAF photo)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The one of the most chilling news in the world has been that the North Korea has been shot ballistic missile ten times higher than ISS is orbiting the Earth. That will give the North Korean military the capacity to attack against the ISS (International Space Station) with those missiles. Most of the ASAT weapons in the world are modified ICBM missiles, what can destroy their targets with kinetic energy or nuclear warheads. The weapons principle is very simple. That weapon will drive in the collision course to the target, and then the kinetic energy will slam the satellite into the orbital trajectory.


Problem with the ASAT weapons is the searching the right target from the orbital trajectory. The satellite is quite a small target, and that’s why the guidance of the missile to the right target is difficult. If those missiles are equipped with the special warhead, what seems like shotgun ammunition. In those warheads is a metal ball, what gives the weapon same kind of effect than shotguns have.

Normally ASAT weapons will not use thermonuclear warheads, because the EMP-pulse and the plasma, will make damages to many more satellites. The tests of the ASAT weapons are problematic, because they increased the number of the space junkie, what will cause danger for other satellite because the debris of those test will stay at the orbital trajectory even for years.


The Schwarm of those metal balls will destroy that satellite immediately. But the problem is how to find the right target? Usually, ASAT weapon will track to the target by optical telescopes and radars, what is used to track the trajectory of the satellite, and also make possible for visual identification of the target. And of course, the GPS-satellites might track by their signals.


And if the state has the rocket, what will overtake the altitude of those satellites, will they able to destroy those vital elements of those systems. Also, ASAT is the danger for low orbital intelligence and photo recon satellites what provides information for strategic targets to the headquarters.


Those ASAT systems can be the ship, submarines mobile devices, or aircraft mounted, but also fixed silos are used. There is also made tests to destroy the satellites with high power lasers, or radio-.and microwaves. The radio waves are used by the equipment where two extremely powerful radars will cross their signals in the same position, and if that equipment is synchronized in same frequency, will the arc flame destroy the target immediately. But in those cases, must the target identified very careful. Because when the direct energy weapon hits the target, the strike can’t be denied. And that’s why the missile concepts are more popular than directed energy weapons.

The killer satellites

B-52 and Pegasus rocket

Kimmo Huosionmaa

This is not a writing about “Zuma” mission, what began today in Cape Canaveral. That mission payload is top secret, and I think that it might be related to the space weapons like killer satellites. I don’t have known what that “Zuma” payload really is. But I think that might be some kind of killing ordnance, what would change the strategic situation at the orbiter. 

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/15/top-secret-zuma-payload-puzzles-satellite-trackers/


What would real-life satellite killer look like? That is the real question what many people want to ask. The kill vehicle is normally quite small because in normal situation it doesn’t need very much mass when it kills the satellite. That weapon is known as an MKV (Miniature Kill Vehicle). It was created for anti-satellite missions, and in some mission profiles, they will shoot against the target satellite trajectory. Then they can get most powerful impact energy when it strikes another satellite with modified aircraft launched rockets. Those weapons are miniaturized and more simple than people think. One period some engineers created the very simple way to build small size and cheap killer satellite. That satellite was actually a modified rocket cassette, what is used in many helicopters and airplanes.



That rocket cassette was equipped with rocket stage, what had maneuver motors and also camera system, what makes possible to track the targets. The small size makes the tracking of that vehicle very difficult. And of course, the enemy killer satellites are unable to track that satellite. 


And the small size and mass make possible to make many maneuvers in the orbital trajectory. The weapon is actually a space-borne bazooka, what terminates the target with kinetic energy. And the small size makes possible to send those vehicles to space with same rockets as other satellites, or the operators might also use Pegasus-rockets to launch those miniature kill vehicles to the low earth orbiter. 


The problem of the killer satellites is that there are no contracts what can control those vehicles. Actually, all satellites are killer satellites if they will drive to impact other satellites. That’s why those vehicles are the great threat to GPS-satellites and communication satellites and that kind of kill vehicles might also be a threat to the photo reconnaissance satellites, what can use with real-time reconnaissance missions, which objective is to make 3D mission support in tactical and strategic level mapping and target recognition for friendly forces.