Secret Space Shuttles

Air & Space Magazine ^ | 8/01/2009 | By Michael Cassutt

[Eyes Unclouded]

Every country has a strategic interest in aerospace. China’s space program is formally controlled by their army. Space is the next frontier for the next war. Too bad we are neglecting our programs in this regard.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I agree

[Bobalu]

Commander Hoot Gibson

Hoot Gibson!? :-)

[Names Ash Housewares]

Space is the ultimate high ground of the battlefield.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Ping

[4rcane]

I disagree. The only that gets built for space are satellites and land based missiles can take them all down

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Not if those satellites are armed with missiles and lasers.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

A proposed Russian Laser Satellite battery

[4rcane]

as if a satellite can withstand unlimited number of missiles and unlimited number of different means from lasers to jamming

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

If you have a constellation of satellites it will defeat incoming missiles

[4rcane]

waste of money and pointless. Its like the French Maginot Line

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

No it is not. Space satellite systems with lasers will render all missile attacks obsolete. That is the purpose of National Missile Defense.

[Yossarian]

I disagree. The only that gets built for space are satellites and land based missiles can take them all down

You're right - shooting down satellites is so easy and straighforward that Saddam Hussein did it in his historic wins over allied forces in 1991 and 2003.

[allmost]

This is the new “secret”. I'm still in my 30’s, God help us all...

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Not if they are armed to defend themselves from such attack.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

My dream satellite. It is both armed with a high powered laser and missiles.

[Finny]

Space is the next frontier for the next war. Too bad we are neglecting our programs in this regard.

WELL SAID. It is hard to believe how many intelligent people fail to grasp the truth of what you wrote.

The nation that dominates in space this century will dominate the world. American military should put a premium, as in top priority, on attaining and maintaining superiority in space technology.

[octex]

SOS... Wouldn’t firing a missile from a satellite result in the satellite moving in the opposite direction and losing its normal orbit? ....I’ll vote for the lasers.

[Sparticus]

Only if you didn’t open the back door, too.