Comments on: Chinese Laser vs. U.S. Sats?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:28:14 +0000

It’s called “being prepared”. What’s wrong with that?

By: Amused

Amused — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:01:45 +0000

Americans, trust them to worry about everything, even things that don’t concern them.

By: garet

garet — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:27:15 +0000

this is straight out a novel called “counterspace”. all that’s needed now is an iranian backed north korean nuclear detontion in the sky.

By: America

America — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:38:45 +0000

china spends 4.3% of GDP on military. U.S. spends 4.03% US does not spend more than CHina on defense.

By: The_Merch

The_Merch — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:20:13 +0000

“Finally, with regard to laser blinding — it is not as easy as it sounds to “blind” an optical satellite with a laser. I’m no physicist, but as I understand it, imaging satellites usually work in several wavelengths, meaning first of all you’d have to have lasers in all the colors that match those wavelengths to blind the sat, not just one single wavelength laser beam. Secondly, because of the way imaging sats work, taking pictures of strips of the Earth using strips of pixels, you’d have to figure out how to blind all the pixels — which apparently is so hard as to be well nigh impossible. And I note that as far as I know, we haven’t gotten that far with Starfire, so what makes us so sure the Chinese are ahead of us there?“
Huhwhat? Lasers don’t blind pixels, they blind optics.

By: Candy Lemondrops

Candy Lemondrops — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:29:49 +0000

20 of the satellites orbiting the earth landed in my backyard last thursday. China, you may come retreive your on June 6 and Russia yours was demolished in sorry. I have a HI TECH satellite reader in my back yard which i watch 23 hours a day. (1 hour off for bathroom breaks). thank you

By: cobby

cobby — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:25:16 +0000

Hi,
orbital_polarity@[1022]
shutdown@[];
!

By: Hank Mishkoff

Hank Mishkoff — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:37:08 +0000

One reason that the US may oppose banning weapons in space is because we already *have* nuclear weapons in space, in the form of the Ajax Project: http://www.WebFeats.com/EOD/

By: edbk

edbk — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:44:13 +0000

laser now missle
when will be impress
a tangle web

By: ben

ben — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:21:44 +0000

HELSTF links for posterity …
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/miracl.htm
http://helstf-www.wsmr.army.mil/