US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites::The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations’ satellites and the ground stations that support them.
US Space Force: “Stop laughing, we really do have a purpose!”
Things could get interesting if they start competing with the Navy to be another taxi service for the Marines though.
I’m willing to bet that the Navy will take over the task of commanding spaceships when we start with the space imperialism
At the very least, all their best officers will get transferred to space force. There isn’t really any direct earthly parellel to space warfare and logistics, but naval warfare and logistics is as close as it gets
Submarines in particular: sealed system that moves in three dimensions.
Man why do they have to make these cringey symbols for units like these? This is space, we should have something cooler.
Honestly, it looks like a gamer tag icon from back in the Halo 2 days lol
I really hope they don’t act out on blowing up satellites. Kessler Syndrome will ruin any hopes of future space habitation and exploration for generations to come.
Could burn out their sensors, brick the hardware or otherwise make them useless without creating a new debris cloud.
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Will they take out their own satellites too? Since they spy on their own citizens…
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From the article, “These systems range from ground-based lasers that can blind optical sensors on satellites to devices that can jam signals or conduct cyberattacks to hack into adversary satellite systems.”
I was about to comment “I wonder what techniques they’ll use to disable satellites without blowing them to dangerous smithereens.”
But I see you’ve assumed they’re idiots and will do exactly that. I think you could give people a little more credit. They’re at least as knowledgeable as you, random internet person.
It wouldn’t be the first time a military would blow up something in orbit just to see it go kaboom.
But wait! There’s more. My favorite space fuckup is the West Ford project. What’s better than crushing the existing satellites into million pieces, you ask? Skipping the satellite phase, and bringing up the millions of pieces just to releaae them into orbit deliberately.
The West Ford project conducted by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the US Air Force in the early 1960s was a notable example. The project’s purpose was to create an 8 km (5 mi) wide, 40 km (25 mi) thick band of tiny copper wire segments in a near-polar orbit around the Earth as a passive radio reflector for military communications. In the first attempted deployment, in October 1961, the payload failed to disperse as planned. Eventually, seven small objects from the failed attempt were catalogued as orbital debris. The objects, with radar cross-sections between 0.06 m2 (0.6 ft2) and 0.6 (6.5 ft2), are still in orbit at an altitude of about 3,600 km (2,250 mi). A second West Ford project deployment attempt in May 1963 carried a payload of 480 million copper needles, each 1.8 cm (0.7 in.) long and 0.00178 cm (0.0007 in.) in diameter. Project planners expected solar radiation pressure to deorbit the needles in only a few years. However, only one-fourth to one-half of the needles dispersed as planned. Most remained in clumps that were more resistant to orbital decay. Eventually, 144 clumps from that attempt were identified and tracked; forty-six of them remained in orbit in 2013, but only nine of them had perigees less than 2,000 km (1,240 mi). Individual needles are too small to track.
The History of Space Debris - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
I mean on the one hand they probably know what they’re doing, on the other hand they think a skull in a triangle makes them look cool. Just saying.
