Does Schulte really believe that you can impact satellites without creating debris?
I think that we need to start getting creative about how to disable satellites without smashing them to pieces.
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That’s easy. First you impact it with a proton beam, build up a nice space charge, and then switch to an electron beam. Your own little EMP and lightning storm in one.
Actually, it even easier than that – start with an aerogel, 100 km on a side…
I quit reading where it said ‘arms control’, which is where I thought it was going. I quit because when WE talk arms control, it really means the world controls US. We’ve controlled our nukes and I expect everyone else is selling to Al Queda or North Korea for American Dollars.
Screw that.
Personally I think Linton is right, or headed in a good direction. And BTW, isn’t that just what Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ plan was about 30 years ago? In 30 years we haven’t perfected that sort of idea?
How about guys in space suits just go from bad guy satellite to bad guy satellite and hit the BRS?
Pudding. Lots and lots of pudding.
I dunno……I just…do it 😉
Sun shade or parasol for the solar powered sats; solar lens for nukes (interfere with heat rejection capability).
You could also put a RF reflector right in front of their antennas, to prevent uplink/downlink. Could be as simple as an aluminized sheeet floating far enough out (but close enough in) to eclipse the satellite from its ground control station.
Pew pew pew!
155 mm Lepage Glue gun (Jos. Heller)
Maybe Team 6 can impact those sats debris-free.
Attatch a small tether and deorbit it.
Autonomous Capture and Tether Deployment (ACTD)
(mine’s better, acronym, easier to fund, WIN!!)
And then, the magic happens…
I think that we need to start getting creative about how to disable satellites without smashing them to pieces.
Oh, there’s already a range of options for offensive space control. Doctrine lists the range as disrupt, deceive, deny, degrade and destroy. As to the specifics, well, they’re above even my security clearance.
I would think spray painting over the solar panels would work well too. Snipping antennas, painting over lenses. Use your imagination!
There are all sorts of mischief you can do with a microsatellite in close proximity to a target satellite that don’t generate debris. Some of them are reversable and others aren’t.
Let’s see… you would need an autonomous vehicle with a cargo bay large enough to carry a small booster and a tether that you could attach to a relatively stout portion of the satellite, then you would back off, point the booster toward earth start slow then ramp up. It wouldn’t be cheap but I bet we could do it tomorrow.