Navy to Shoot Down Spy Satellite. Aparently they are going to try to use an aegis cruiser to shoot down that spy satellite that's supposed to re-enter next month. This should be interesting. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330696,00.html
Oh I sure hope so! Can't let the Chinese think they can be dropping their defective satellites on us . I realize that's not exactly what you're saying but the implied meaning of your statement is a little too tin foil hattish for me.
風船爆弾 Fūsen Bakudan It's simple, really. Can you say: 風船爆弾 Fūsen Bakudan ??? The ChiCom's would just be following the lead of the Jap prototypes that "blazed" a path over the N. Pacific during WW2 ..... which played a part in the "discovery" of the NOPAC jet-stream as well. Clever, as well as inscrutable, these Orientals, yea-as ??? JAPANESE FIREBOMB OFFENSIVE, Wikipedia THE GREAT JAPANESE BALLOON OFFENSIVE, Air University Review
Can't remember where I read this, but apparently, a full on war would result in EVERYONE losing access to orbit for a significant period of time, due to all the debris and crap left after blowing up multiple satellites.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9510 Sure, the Chinese just caught up with 1985. I don't think that that predicates a massive pissing contest to prove that we can repeat something we did 23 years ago. They're not retarded, they know that we've got the bigger jimmy on this one. No need to prove it. That being said, using the Aegis system to splatter this satellite DOES accomplish the twin goals of being a good training exercise and placating all the whiny drama princesses who are freaking out because "a satellite with Nuclear stuff on it is gonna crash and make a big mushroom cloud and make little Billy grow a third eyeball." Just my $.02
There may not be any need... But if shooting a BBQ tank out in the back yard is fun... well... * Bevis and Butthead voice* Heh.... FIRE!
There's only a handful of ships that have. I'm interested to know which one will get the honors. They've been very successful up to now.
It's in the missiles........ The SM-3 is a very wicked missile, and unlike much of missile defense, it has proven it works so far. But I am with MasterBates on this, if someone can find a way to screw it up......... http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/html/nmdimg.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/stardsm3.htm
Interesting reads. That makes sense. Armaments are king. My father was a FCC on Cruisers, so perhaps memories of identifying his ship returning from a tour have made me biased. Still I have always been a fan of the cruiser and its mission.
http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/images/img_2850.jpg So THATS what that is.... I just kept calling it the "Death Star" while giving directions around the base. +1 rep True, blowing up satellites in orbit sends debris everywhere. Hence why a terminal Satellites is so great. The debris wont scatter around conflicting with orbits. Just burn up coming down. Plus its more like a naturally unstable, less predictable, ill maintained and barely working enemy missile.
They obviously want to blow it into the smallest pieces they can, so it doesn't enter the atmosphere anyways and foreign intel doesn't snipe our technology. Are they concerned that any of the people that are actually up in space will take a lug-nut to the chest whilst they're out fixing something on the space station perhaps?? I know very little about space, but I know that a little bolt could possibly do more damage than a .45 bullet can do here at close range. Didn't we get pissed off at the Chinese for obliterating one of their own sattelites and sending fragments all over into orbit???? The article mentions it...but they just say they'll try and "pick the right time and place", but is there really a good time and place for that sort of thing?? How many satellites are in orbit these days?
The right time and place would be over a large expanse of ocean where any debris that might survive would not hit anyone. And it also possibly means shooting it down while it is in a lower orbit, since its orbit is decaying, where debirs would not pose as much danger to other spacecraft and would reenter quickly. The big beef we had with the Chinese is that their satellite was still in orbit along with a lot of other spacecraft when they hit it. That, and we don't like them.
Some of the talking heads don't have any faith in the government estimates of how much debirs will be kicked up and believe that the debirs from this shoot could be dangerous to the ISS http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/skeptical-about.html
Cut me some slack, it is Friday and my auto-correct is not on....... Mr Lewis may be a very smart guy but NRO and NASA have plenty of rocket scientists figuring this stuff out, I will put my faith in them......though it might be misplaced, since the NRO are the ones who launched the giant paperweight in the first place.
Does that make you an auto-correct cripple? Stratfor is saying that we would not be planning this shoot unless the Pentagon was seriously concerned about the hydrazine falling into a densely populated area. How does that track out there?
