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India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-humming-the-music dept.

Frankie70 writes "Star Wars are back in fashion. With perennial (and nuclear armed) foe Pakistan always teetering on the brink of political collapse and neighboring regional superpower China taking greater strides into space technology, India has announced that it is developing an exo-atmospheric 'kill vehicle' that will knock enemy satellites out of orbit."

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  1. Oh great, more orbital shooting gallery! by PeterM+from+Berkeley · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With everyone "testing" their antisatellite weaponry and creating ever more orbital debris, pretty soon there'll be so much debris up there we won't be able to keep any satellites operational.

    China's test of a year or two back may have already generated enough debris to start a chain reaction, any more and we may definitely go over the brink to where nothing is survivable in low earth orbit.

    --PM

  2. The problem is by LoudMusic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is, even if you knock down their satellites they're going to retaliate on the ground in your largest populated cities. And they don't need their satellites to do that.

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