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• echelon 11mo ago
  My favorite F-15 kill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
  • dosbod 11mo ago
    The military have developed other ways to bring down satellites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionospheric_heater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionospheric_heater Whats less well known is as the Ionsphere heats up the upper atmosphere, it bulges out into space like a tyre sidewall bulge. This has the effect of putting an atmosphere in the path of LEO satellite, which then causes the LEO satellite to fall to earth because they are not designed to travel through an atmosphere. Joule heating is the most important one which can alter the thermospheric dynamics quite significantly.[1] [1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015ja021841 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
    • 3eb7988a1663 11mo ago
      Neat. Could this potentially be used to de-orbit space junk?
    • echoangle 11mo ago
      Do you have a source that you can measurably affect drag on satellites using a ground based Ionospheric heater? How much is the atmosphere actually going to heat up from a few megawatts?