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Top-secret X-37B mini-shuttle mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral
On Dec 19, 9:18*pm, "jonathan" wrote:
China's Evolving ASAT Weapons Programs and Their Implications for Future U.S. Strategy China's direct-ascent ASATs pose a serious challenge to U.S. photographic intelligence (PHOTINT), electro-optical (EO), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and electronic intelligence (ELINT) satellites that operate in low-earth orbit (LEO). According to Desmond Ball, a stockpile of around 20 direct-ascent ASATs would be needed to guarantee the destruction of the six or seven EO/SAR satellites that are thought to currently constitute the bulk of classified U.S. national security space imaging. So, can anyone imagine why the military might want to have a half dozen or so mini shuttles lying about ...ready to go? 1. Notice it didn't say missile warning satellites, they are too high for the Chinese ASAT. 2. Having a "half dozen or so mini shuttles lying about ...ready to go" doesn't do squat, they still will take several months to launch. |
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