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Will this be the first spacecraft mounted laser weapon? > "we plan to install a full-scale version on the ISS, incorporating a three-meter telescope and a lase

Will this be the first spacecraft mounted laser weapon? > "we plan to install a full-scale version on the ISS, incorporating a three-meter telescope and a laser with 10,000 fibers, giving it the ability to deorbit debris with a range of approximately 100 kilometers".

nkoren 11y ago
Not the first to be _launched_, but perhaps the first to be _orbited_: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29