Re: Satellite defense
- From: "Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Jan 2007 12:17:35 -0800
Rand Simberg wrote:
On 22 Jan 2007 12:09:08 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
<edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:
Frogwatch wrote:
I vaguely remember that some US survelliance sats have the ability to
maneuver. Is this sufficient to dodge a hit to kill asat?
The satellite would have to have more maneuvering capability than the
ASAT that
is aiming to hit it. Since most spysats are big and heavy and most
ASATs are
small and very quick-footed, it would appear that most ASATs would
prevail in a
one-on-one contest. If not on the first shot, then on the next pass,
or the pass
after that.
That assumes that it gets a second chance. The one that the Chinese
fired was almost certainly suborbital.
Right. But a determined attacker would probably assign several ASAT
missiles to a specific target. They could be fired on sequential
passes
if the first one misses. Either the presumably mobile missiles could
be
lined up beneath multiple orbit tracks, or the attacker could simply
wait
12 or 24, or however many, hours.
- Ed Kyle
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