“U.S. Intel Confirms This Is China’s Secret Spaceplane (Updated). The Chinese spaceplane design is unsurprisingly very similar to the U.S. Space Force's history-making X-37B.” (TWZ)
The image of China's highly secretive miniature space shuttle shows how advanced China really is. In space technology. The remarkable thing is the large-size rocket stage. That makes it possible. To make fast maneuvers in large orbital areas. This makes that space plane ideal. To operate as an orbital anti-satellite fighter. The highly automated system is almost Similar to the X-37B space plane.
This space shuttle can fix satellites or adjust their trajectories. In the first case, this system transports robots. That can fix the satellite. The same system could also be used to collect satellites. That system can drive malfunctioning satellites into the atmosphere. Operators can use that shuttle. To capture secretive military satellites. But as we know, those miniature shuttles are multipurpose tools. The spacecraft is highly secretive. Secrecy tells us about military purposes.
They can be used for recon missions. They can target opponent reconnaissance satellites. Miniature shuttles can transport miniature ELINT and image-intelligence satellites to the orbiter. Miniature satellites can act as a swarm. They can connect the data that their systems collect. The miniature satellite cloud can collect data from multiple positions. They can offer communication tools for larger, more powerful killer satellites.
Those miniature spaceplanes can also operate as ASAT (Anti-Satellite) platforms. They can carry miniature killer satellites to space. Those miniature satellites can involve microwave or laser weapons. Miniature laser satellites can drill holes in the satellite. That. Can damage things like satellite antennas. In those cases, the system uses those miniature satellites as silent saboteurs. Their purpose is not to destroy satellites. Their purpose is to disturb them.
Satellites like GPS play a vital role in modern warfare. There are two ways to disturb satellite navigation systems. The system. They can use jammers to disturb satellites' ability to communicate with ground devices. The system. They can also blow gas impulses. To. GPS satellites and try to change targeted satellites' altitude or their trajectories. That kind of sabotage can remain unseen. There is a possibility. That near those satellites are some EMP satellites. They can try to jam those targeted satellites. The power. Of those microwave systems. It determines their effect. The jammer can look like a solar storm. Microwave systems can keep a targeted satellite in pieces.
“U.S. Intel Warns China’s Space-Based Directed Energy Weapons Could Soon Threaten Satellites Battlefield space is heating up as the DIA warns that China could use orbital directed energy weapons to take down satellites by the end of the decade.” (TWZ)
That denies debris from spreading along the trajectories.
The simplest ASAT satellites use kinetic energy systems. Kinetic energy ASATs can use miniature satellites. They collide with targeted satellites. Another system can use bullets to destroy targets. ASAT systems must not have very powerful gun systems. If. The killer satellite travels opposite to its target. It can send a kill device with very high impact speed. The problem is that. Those impacts increase space junk. Another version. Is to use miniature satellites to touch the targeted satellite. And then drive that targeted satellite into the atmosphere.
Laser systems are more lethal. They can destroy an entire satellite in seconds. Those systems can cut solar panels. Or. If its power is high enough. The thermal expansion can detonate the satellite’s shell. The system can input thermal energy to the target. Then another satellite releases very cold gas into that target’s trajectory. That decreases the satellite's temperature. Very fast. That breaks the satellite’s shell.
The thing is that. Killer satellites are coming. They are required to fight against FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment Systems). Normally, FOBS means a nuclear weapon that orbits the Earth. The miniature shuttle can act as a FOBS weapon. That means the shuttle can carry nuclear weapons in its cargo bay. That shuttle can act as a “super drone”. Or the miniature shuttle can release the hypersonic glider to the target. The problem is that. The FOBS and EMP weapons can orbit Earth for years. The EMP satellite can seem very innocent. They can look like regular communication or even commercial satellites. This means that those satellites can do regular missions. But. Inside them can be a nuclear weapon.
When that satellite travels over a certain place. It. Can detonate its warhead. The satellite can detonate its weapon by using radar. Or LIDAR and camera images. That DSMAC (Digital Scene-Matching Area Correlation System. Makes it possible for the satellite to find its target. When the satellite detonates the megaton-class nuclear weapon above a city area. There. Is no time to react. The EMP destroys electronics in a large area. That EMP can deny the use of communication systems. This weapon collapses defenses. This is why. ASAT weapons play a vital role. In. The military ecosystem.
The purpose. Of. ASAT systems is to intercept satellites that play a vital role in the military. The satellites that control drone swarms can collect data from enemy territory. The drones collect data while they travel to their target. They send that data to those satellites. HQ can use that data to plan a follow-up strike.
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