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It's a Chinese satellite and it's obviously worrying the US because it can theoretically be used to interfere with their military satellites.
by FridayoLeary 5y ago
It's a Chinese satellite and it's obviously worrying the US because it can theoretically be used to interfere with their military satellites.
- jcims 5y agoThis seems like something that would be almost trivial to develop once you have basic orbital stationkeeping capability. The challenge with the trash tug use case is you want your spacecraft to survive engaging a randomly tumbling object with a mass that could be substantially greater than its own. You don’t need that if you just want to interfere. I would be very surprised if strategic DoD satellites didn't have some kind of close-in defense capability to ward off any vehicles sniffing about.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoMeanwhile the X-37 is doing...whatever it is it does.
- aqme28 5y agoThere are much simpler ways to destroy enemy satellites. You wouldn't necessarily go out of your way to gently decommission them.