Weaponization of space?

[whitehall]

Satellites aren't that big. They range from the size of a school bus to a lunchbox. Pieces of a school bus destroyed on space would mostly be burned up entering earth's atmosphere.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Destroying satellites could cause chaos.

Russia endangered its own people to do this. Incredible. Also their software has been causing problems to the ISS recently. What are they up to?

 

[fncceo]

But they will be constantly moving, and in a small area in LEO.

Not every place is suitable for any kind of satellites. Sure, room between the Earth and the Moon for a planet. Not that you can really put satellites into that space and have them be of any use at all.

Non geosynchronous satellites can live anywhere between 160km and 2,000km. That's more than a TRILLION cubic km of space in which to live.

A similar band exists for geosynchronous satellites but with an increase of the cube of the distance between 2,000km and 36,000km ... a number technically know as a metric shit ton.

 

[fncceo]

Destroying satellites could cause chaos.

Destroying satellites ballistically has the very unlikely potential of starting a chain reaction of space debris... however, gently pushing any satellite out of its orbit would result in a clean burn up in the atmosphere.

 

[shoshi]

Destroying satellites ballistically has the very unlikely potential of starting a chain reaction of space debris... however, gently pushing any satellite out of its orbit would result in a clean burn up in the atmosphere.

Chaos on Earth as we lost internet and television and cell phone connection. You know how we earthlings are.

 

[fncceo]

Chaos on Earth as we lost internet and television and cell phone connection. You know how we earthlings are.

In fact, nearly all Internet and all of cell phone use is terrestrial radio and cable based.

Geosynchronous comm satellites live out at 36,000km. The induced time lag of the round trip radio wave results in significant latency.

 

[Stryder50]

More to the point of the OP/Thread title, space has been "weaponized" ~ used for military purposes ever since nations started to travel out there. Consider; ICBMs travel through space when going from launch to target, just one example.

Here's something from the past many never seem to have heard of. Note if you go through this concept, how much was re-labled/re-branded as NASA's Apollo Program.
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Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon, at a time when the U.S. Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Department of the Air Force had total responsibility for U.S. space program plans. On June 8, 1959, a group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) produced for the Army a report titled Project Horizon, A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost. The project proposal states the requirements as:

The lunar outpost is required to develop and protect potential United States interests on the moon; to develop techniques in moon-based surveillance of the earth and space, in communications relay, and in operations on the surface of the moon; to serve as a base for exploration of the moon, for further exploration into space and for military operations on the moon if required; and to support scientific investigations on the moon.[1]

The permanent outpost was predicted to be required for national security "as soon as possible", and to cost $6 billion. The projected operational date with twelve soldiers was December 1966.

Horizon never progressed past the feasibility stage, being rejected by President Dwight Eisenhower when primary responsibility for America's space program was transferred to the civilian agency NASA.
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Project Horizon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Stryder50]

For further reference the following links to the PDFs of this proposed project. Note how with slight drawing and caption changes some of the illustrations went from military focus to NASA focus and use.
Project Horizon Report: Volume I, Summary and Supporting Considerations (PDF). United States Army. June 9, 1959.
Project Horizon Report: Volume II, Technical Considerations & Plans (PDF). United States Army. June 9, 1959.
Richelson, Jeffrey T., ed. (July 20, 2014). "Soldiers, Spies and the Moon: Secret U.S. and Soviet Plans from the 1950s and 1960s". The National Security Archive. Retrieved September 18, 2021.

 

[Ringo]

The orbit of the ISS has been changed to evade the wreckage of the American "Pegasus" rocket.
But no one will be outraged, neither the State Department nor the "honest and objective" media, because this is a fragment of a democratic rocket, and not an old soviet totalitarian satellite.

This is completely different!©

 

[Mushroom]

The orbit of the ISS has been changed to evade the wreckage of the American "Pegasus" rocket.

That was launched over 27 years ago.

PEGASUS DEB

PEGASUS DEB, launched from Air Force Western Test Range, California, USA in 1994.

in-the-sky.org

So yes, it is very different. Mir at that time had not even gotten the Spektr module for the upcoming Mir-Shuttle missions.

As usual, you really are trying to stretch things.

 

[Ringo]

That was launched over 27 years ago.

So yes, it is very different. Mir at that time had not even gotten the Spektr module for the upcoming Mir-Shuttle missions.

As usual, you really are trying to stretch things.

As usual you didn't get it.
By the way, can you enlighten me, what norms of international law the United States is guided by, staying on the territory of Syria, an independent state, a member of the UN and with a legitimate president - without interstate treaties and invitations?

 

[Blues Man]

Do you people really think that we don't already have weapons in space?

Are you all that naïve?

 

[shoshi]

Do you people really think that we don't already have weapons in space?

Are you all that naïve?

Are you talking about HARP?

 

[Blues Man]

Are you talking about HARP?

No I'm talking about the stuff civilians have no clue about.

The military has tech that is at least a decade or more ahead of what we think they have.

 

[Mushroom]

United States is guided by, staying on the territory of Syria

Not the topic. Please, stay on target.

 

[Mushroom]

Do you people really think that we don't already have weapons in space?

Are you all that naïve?

Ahhh, and now we hear from the CT fringe.

 

[Blues Man]

Ahhh, and now we hear from the CT fringe.

Not from CT.

But you can be stupid and believe everything the government tells you if you want to.

 

[Mushroom]

Not from CT.

But you can be stupid and believe everything the government tells you if you want to.

Ahhh, came from the Government, must be a lie,

Classic CT claim.

 

[DudleySmith]

That map is actually NOT to scale... it maps objects that vary in size between a couple of centimeters to those the size of The Hubble. A map of the Sahara Desert would be vastly more dense with objects of that size.

Additionally, the surface area of The Earth is a paltry 510 million square kilometers... the total volume of Low Earth Orbit is around ONE TRILLION CUBIC kilometers.

That's a lot of space to look for a 2cm piece of tinfoil.

Plus most of it burns up in the atmosphere eventually. It;s not like they're Moon sized asteroids.

 

[rupol2000]

Where does Russia buy rocket engines? There was information that they broke off relations with Ukrainian suppliers, and their own production was not established.