Comments on: Satellite Killer Revisited

By: satellite

satellite — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:09:47 +0000

Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog.

By: G. Stone

G. Stone — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:58:50 +0000

So this is why my DirectTV keeps losing its signal. Russian pricks !

By: joe

joe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:35:29 +0000

Sorry for the lockout, Dan and General. The spam filter did not like something. You should both be good to go now.

By: Brian L.

Brian L. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:13:08 +0000

A Russian co-worker of mine once described to me how he worked on the Soviet satellite-killer system. According to him, the Soviets developed a satellite “bomb” that contained essentially hundreds to thousands of heavy steel ball bearings. According to him, the system was partially deployed, and there are a number of these “killer satellites” in orbit today, waiting for the command to destroy anything around them.

Dunno if he was pulling my chain or not, but it made for an interesting afternoon engineering conversation. I have no idea how effective something like that would be, though I suppose if one were trying to take out *all* satellite communication, nothing would beat a well-placed EMP…

Regards,
Brian

By: ACTivist

ACTivist — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:10:55 +0000

That basically is the essence of the program. To show how uncompatable the missles STANDARD role is to the reworked task role. Should be interesting have far they will take us.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:43:48 +0000

Not so much HOW to do it, but WHAT must be done. Satellites are easy — no countermeasures, no debris field, etc. I doubt they will go into the HOW of tracking, targeting, and guidance.