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Article #6921Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
From: Gary Coffman
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:55
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:55
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In article <ewright.725665121@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes: >In <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes: > >>Only the US and the former USSR have demonstrated knocking out orbital >>satellites. Those other nations have the ability to achieve precision >>orbits, so they should be able to do the same, but they haven't attempted >>to do so. > >Achieving a precise orbit is not necessary to knock out a low-orbit >satellite. All of the nuclear powers have ballistic missiles capable >of lofting a warhead to orbital altitude, if not into orbit. Detonating >a small nuke in the general vicinity of a satellite, at the right >altitude, would do the job. Technically possible, but militarily dangerous. You've just escalated a brushfire conventional war into a nuclear exchange. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use) Message-ID: <1993Jan4.165523.11040@ke4zv.uucp> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <1992Dec17.110426.8596@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec17.1 <1992Dec21.164114.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725665121@convex.convex.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:55:23 GMT Lines: 23