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China Launches Technology Capable of Destroying US Military Satellites (Video)
According to Brian Weeden, a former U.S. Air Force space and missile operations officer, in recent years the U.S. national security space community has been shifting their efforts to defend a more “contested” space community. At present, there are more than 150 U.S. military and intelligence satellites in orbit, providing important national security capabilities such as precision navigation and timing, global communications, missile warning, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. If those satellites ever came under attack, or were rendered useless, it could open the door for our adversaries to invade.
The weaponization of space has been a subject of controversy since the days of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, but unlike when it was discussed back in the 1980’s’s, the technology to weaponize space actually exists today, and it has for some time.
You may recall, in 2007, China launched a land based “satellite killer,” and to test the technology they blew up their own FENGYUN 1C polar-orbiting weather satellite. Whether it was deliberate, or whether the act was poorly thought out, the consequence of blowing up their own satellite left space debris everywhere, and to this day computers on earth have to continuously monitor every last piece of the debris that resulted from the explosion.
In space, the debris travels around the Earth at speeds close to 17,000mph, which is fast enough to pulverize the entire International Space Station, or any man that crosses the debris field’s path. For that reason, it’s not likely ground based systems will be tried again. Too much debris in space could make using space too unsafe for anyone, which benefits no one.
Many have speculated that is why the highly secretive U.S. unmanned “mini-shuttle” program (known as the X-37B, and can be seen landing in the video below), is actually part of an advanced “neighborhood watch” program that is keeping our military assets in space safe.
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As you might expect, because this subject is a serious one, deals with national security, and involves the potential for war against an “actual” adversary, the U.S. mainstream media wants no part of it. They prefer to spend weeks at a time debating far more important issues of the day. like which gender should be using which restrooms, and the imaginary war on women. That’s why it may shock you to learn that what you see in the video above was actually the X-37B mini-shuttle’s 3rd landing so far. The first launch of the mini-shuttle fleet consisting of at least two known mini-shuttles was in 2010, and each mission has lasted roughly a year or longer in space.
News that the U.S. has a fleet of mini-space shuttles probably comes as shock to most Americans, and that’s largely because unless people are looking for specific news about what is going on in space or at NASA, they probably won’t hear a thing. Having had an interest in space since I was a child, I tend to pay attention to what’s going on at NASA, which is the main reason I’ve followed what little is known about the top secret spacecraft. You can learn what little is known to the public in the links at the bottom.
For the most part, the only concrete facts known about the X-37B mini-shuttle program, is that the shuttles “belong” to the U.S. Air Force, they are “unmanned mini-shuttles,” and they certainly appear to be an integral part of our space program based on the fact they spend in excess of a year in orbit each mission.
As you’ll learn in the video below from the Next News Network, it’s not a stretch to conclude the Chinese are testing technology with similar capabilities to our mini-shuttles. In the video, Gary Fanchi reveals what little is known about China’s newest space technology. Similar to the Russian “satellite catcher,” China is claiming the technology is intended to use it’s robotic arm to grab space debris and remove it from orbit, but just like the Russian technology, it’s far more likely that explanation is just a cover for a military application.
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The Chinese and Russians have both been actively working towards the weaponization of space for several years now. Since the Chinese land-based “satellite killer” missile was launched several years ago, there have been reports that the Chinese have been actively testing new space weapons regularly, and they’re not alone.
There have also been reports that Russia tested new technology back in 2014 referred to as a “satellite catcher” for outer space. Publicly, Russia discloses that the purpose for such technology is to enable them to snatch their own satellites out of orbit for repair, however the rather obvious military application of such technology would be to use the “satellite catcher” to snatch U.S. satellites out of orbit, either to destroy them, or to reverse engineer them.
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As you can read in some of my earlier posts on the X-37B below, I have suggested that perhaps the we are already at a time when the U.S. has no choice but to militarize space for defense purposes. Since our military is so dependent on satellite technology, we cannot leave sensitive communication and/or military satellites totally vulnerable and exposed in space. It’s not far fetched to think the X-37B mini-shuttle fleet was designed with the intent to protect them. The video below gives some very basic background information about the shuttle(s).
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The second video about the min-shuttles goes into a bit more detail about what is known. It covers the increasing scope and capabilities that are known thus far based on the first few successful unmanned mini-shuttle missions. As I have, the video also suggests that the narrative claiming the shuttles are doing “experiments” is most likely not telling giving the full scope of what they are doing. The video makes the case that If the shuttles are conducting “experiments” of some kind as reported, they aren’t growing algae if you catch my drift. There definitely seems to be a more aggressive posture the spacecraft are working toward for the long term.
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China just boosted a high-tech, mysterious new satellite into orbit. It might be a weapon. It might not be a weapon. There’s no way to be certain, either way—and that’s a problem for all spacefaring countries.
Especially the United States and China. Washington and Beijing are lofting more and more of these ambiguous satellites into orbit without agreements governing their use. In failing to agree to the proverbial rules of the orbital road, the two governments risk ongoing suspicion, or worse—a misunderstanding possibly leading to war.
The Roaming Dragon satellite rode into space atop a Long March 7 rocket that blasted off from Hainan in southern China on June 25. Officially, Roaming Dragon is a space-junk collector. Its job, according to Beijing, is to pluck old spacecraft and other debris from Earth’s orbit and safely plunge them back to the planet’s surface.
For sure, orbital debris poses a real hazard to the world’s spacecraft. In the summer of 2015, astronauts aboard the International Space Station—including two Russians and an American—sought shelter inside an escape craft when a chunk of an old Russian satellite appeared to be on a collision course with the station.
Luckily, the debris missed the space station. All the same, NASA and other space agencies have voiced their concern over the accumulation of manmade junk in space—and have taken initial steps to remove the most dangerous chunks.
Hence Roaming Dragon’s official mission. “China, as a responsible big country, has committed to the control and reduction of space debris,” Tang Yagang, a scientist with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, wrote on the Chinese space agency’s website.
But the Roaming Dragon’s design—specifically, its maneuverability and its nimble, extendable robotic arm—mean it could also function as a weapon, zooming close to and dismantling satellites belonging to rival countries.
Stephen Chen, a reporter for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post—which has historically has been critical of the Chinese central government in Beijing—quoted an unnamed “researcher with the National Astronomical Observatories in Beijing” calling into question the satellite’s purported peaceful mission.
“It is unrealistic to remove all space debris with robots,” the anonymous researcher allegedly stated, implying that Roaming Dragon would, in reality, be doing something else up there in orbit.
But there’s no way to prove that Roaming Dragon is a weapon until it actually attacks another satellite. And at that point, the world would surely have much bigger problems than mere spacecraft taxonomy, as an orbital ambush would almost certainly be a prelude to a much more destructive conflict on the surface.
“Space robotic arms, like many other space technologies, have both military and non-military applications, and classifying them as a space weapon depends on the intent of the user, not on the inherent capabilities of the technology,” Kevin Pollpeter, deputy director of the Study of Innovation and Technology in China Project at the University of California, San Diego, wrote in a widely cited 2013 research paper.
“China’s space robotic arm technology is thus a case study in the challenges of defining ‘space weapon’ and the difficulty in achieving space arms control,” Pollpeter added.
It’s an old problem, by space standards. Jeffrey Lewis, a strategic-weapons expert who blogs at Arms Control Wonk, pointed out in an email to The Daily Beast that NASA’s space shuttle, which first launched into orbit in a dramatic test in 1981, inspired the same worry in Moscow that Roaming Dragon could inspire in Washington.
Specifically, Russian analysts questioned the purpose of the shuttle’s famous “Canadarm”—the Canadian-made “Shuttle Remote Manipulator System” that prominently appears in many photos of the now-retired shuttle’s cargo bay. American analysts are not wrong to point out the potential military applications of Roaming Dragon’s robotic arm. But “the Russians said the same thing about the Canadian arm on the space shuttle,” Lewis told The Daily Beast.
As far as we know, the space shuttle, which last flew in 2011, never attacked another spacecraft. Nor, apparently, have any of the many other spacecraft that possess arms and maneuverability similar to Roaming Dragon—the majority of which, it’s worth noting, are American.
The proliferation of these spacecraft underscores a failure on the part of the world’s governments to agree to orbital codes of conduct. “All the spacefaring countries are developing small satellites capable of conducting so-called autonomous proximity operations—and there are absolutely no rules about this,” Lewis explained.
“If China wants to build an inspector satellite to shadow one of our warning satellites, that’s just ducky as far as space law is concerned. In such an environment, even innocent programs will engender suspicion and initiate the basic arms race dynamics that threaten the use of space for everyone.”
That suspicion is already having a very real effect on the U.S. defense establishment. Growing ever more fearful of a possible ambush in space, in early 2015 Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work instructed John Hyten, the four-star general in charge of U.S. Air Force Space Command, to prepare his space operators and their satellites for a possible war in orbit.
But to a great extent, the paranoia is unjustified, according to Brian Weeden, a former Air Force space operator who is now a technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation in Colorado. “A lot of the so-called space weapons technologies that have been hyped by pundits or the media for decades are not actually very good weapons,” Weeden told The Daily Beast in an email.
For starters, it’s hard for a killer satellite to sneak up on one of America’s own spacecraft, what with NASA and the Air Force constantly monitoring Earth’s orbit via radar and telescope. “We would notice it maneuvering to match orbits with the target hours [or] days in advance,” Weeden said.
For that reason, “there are better, faster, or cheaper ways to accomplish the same goal” of knocking out a satellite, Weeden added.
Ground-based rockets, for example. The same boosters that propel satellites into orbit can, if aimed carefully, strike and destroy spacecraft in certain orbits. China famously tested a so-called direct-ascent satellite-killing rocket in 2007, striking an old weather sat and scattering thousands of pieces of debris—ironically, the same kind of debris Roaming Dragon ostensibly was designed to help clean up.
“I still worry a lot more about China’s direct-ascent ASAT,” Lewis said, using a popular acronym for an anti-satellite weapon.
Contrary to the South China Morning Post’s reporting, it’s entirely possible that Roaming Dragon is what Beijing claims it is—an orbital trash-collector. “It’s not crazy to think about trying to pull large pieces of junk out of high-traffic orbits, since those are potential sources of thousands of pieces of deadly smaller debris if the piece breaks up,” Gregory Kulacki, a space expert with the Massachusetts-based Union of Concerned Scientists, told The Daily Beast in an email.
And to China’s credit, it apparently has been fairly transparent about Roaming Dragon—more transparent, in fact, than the United States is with many of its own spacecraft. Weeden said Chinese officials could go a step further in reassuring the world about Roaming Dragon’s mission. “They could release details of its orbit and provide advance notification of any maneuvers. That would set a very good example for other countries testing similar capabilities to follow, including the United States.”
As long as there’s such a fine line between war and peace in space, bold acts of transparency are the only way to prevent suspicion and conflict. That applies to Roaming Dragon and any other satellite—be it Chinese, American, Russian, or other—that can transform from an instrument of science to a weapon of war with the flip of a few switches.
“We should probably try talking to each other about it,” Lewis advised.
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The space junk left by this one satellite getting blown up is nothing compared to the shit Russia and the US have left up there.
no such things as satellites. or space.
more bs.
get with the program.
So you think it’s like MineCraft where you can only dig down as far as bedrock because the size of the image array/matrix is limited do you.
The illusion being played to our brains would be broken if that was the case in just the same was as the double slit experiment breaks the illusion if you understand it.
Me is with the program but i am sorry to say i cannot agree with you and the moon is as real as the table in front of you and that’s just virtual real and made from atoms that are 99.9999999999999999% empty and when you bang your head against the table then you only feel the electromagnetic effect and not millions of atoms touching each other.
Atoms snap to the grid of the matrix according to our quantum theory friends but half the time they are talking shit and are just speculating but they make what i’ve been saying here look very believable in comparison
So the USA puts something that is unknown into space and the title reads that it must be the fault of China and not just the USA that likes to poke it’s nose in to everything.
China shot down a satellite that had a fault and two weeks later the USA shoot a perfectly good satellite down just to make a point but lets all blame China who is being forced onto a war footing because the yanks think they own the world and now space too.
Everyone knows what weapons the US has because they like to start little conflicts and then step in to sell weapon systems at highly inflated costs but the same cannot be said about China so most of it’s toys will remain secret until they are needed so i would think twice before picking a fight with them and planning to fall back on nukes if the fight does not go your way.
And they seriously don’t think the U.S. already has this technology and has had it for a long long time?