US Plans to Blow Apart Its Own Military Satellite

Space Weapons and Anti-satellite Missiles

Here is a good opportunity for our space agencies to prove the value of the Orbital Express satellites to reprogram and boost the orbit of its own spy satellite, but instead they choose once again to show their ability to destroy satellites by using anti-satellite missiles.

They warned the Chinese before about doing the same thing. It sounds like another clear act of intimidation against the rest of the world, an example of how they can deny access in space for certain satellites - especially those from Iran.


Some Links:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-satellite15feb15,0,5756004.story
U.S. will try to shoot down spy satellite gone bad

Is This Satellite Shootdown Necessary?
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 By MARK THOMPSON/WASHINGTON
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1713634,00.html

Russia-China space deal to counter US shield move: diplomats
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russia-China_space_deal_to_counter_US_shield_move_diplomats_999.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aa8hnwcuQwtg&refer=home
Iran's Satellite Program Is `Troubling Development,' U.S. Says

Space Weapons Warning - Update

Experimental Satellites
And Anti-satellite Satellites

Last Thursday night an Atlas 5 rocket was sent aloft and on skyward from Cape Kennedy. DARPA and Space Command placed in low earth orbit some six "experimental" military satellites. Of these some are said to be used for refueling satellites but also capable of capturing and attaching themselves to most man-made satellites and changing their orbits, the Orbital Express program. Repeating again, and reading between the lines, these satellites can not only grab other satellites to boost their orbits - but also presumably bring them down in a fiery reentry. And are ready and able to do whichever is commanded.

The Chinese had also been working on technology for something like this for some time. They'll probably want to put their own in orbit next, satellites that capture other satellites and change their control and function in some way. (They didn't recently shoot apart their own satellite for no reason, like Reagan did over twenty years ago.) Or if someone wanted, they could just put something as simple as some big bags of sand in orbit rigged to explode, or maybe something as complicated as an EMP.

It seems to me that our leaders blunder on, and America has gone berserkers. Bush has called for the world to react either for or against his administration, who say either get behind them or get out of their way - follow them or face their wrath. Welcome to the twenty-first century, Mr. Schizoidman. Take a look at the scene you are creating. I'm speculating that you will still go ahead on and not listen to me, a somewhat concerned citizen. Que sera sera.

So the weaponization of space is full speed ahead. Get ready for satellite wars to begin. Does America really think it can conquer the whole world with satellites, nukes, the troops in Iraq, and all their false intelligence, money, and the cheering sections of high school football games chanting, "USA! USA! Shock and awe! We're #1!"? The nurse with a sweet female face announces with a smile, a wink, and a grin, "Time for your medicine."


Some related links:
http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/oe.htm

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070308_orbitalexpress_prelnch.html

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Working_On_Satellite_Defenses_In_The_Shadow_Of_Chinese_Test_999.html

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/18/us_voices_concern_over_china_satellite_killer_test/