Question: With the current technology we are able to put all kinds of sats in space,
We all know the most common types, however why launch a weapon to take out a sat if you can put a sat into space that carries a weapon?
I mean it takes some effort to make a earth based rocket that can strike into lower space, however would it not be mutch easier to put a sat up that carries a ICBM?
Iam not sure but ill bet that the tech is available for example nasa/esa.
On the other hand why would you want to hit a sat? if you can disrupt or destroy the station on earth making the sat a useless piece of junk?
Also as several other have mentioned the direct space around earth is pretty mutch documented and if not then it will not take mutch time before it gets documented as those amateur "eyes" are pretty fanatic and they know what they are doing so hiding a sat in space might be possible if you talk big distances but a sat used for military services, or public services are still bound to earth orbit.
And to my understanding if its in earth orbit then hiding is a extreemly difficult task if not impossible with the current tech available.
China and the US did some testing and they managed to hit a sat from a navy vessel.
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So hitting a sat aint a mistery anymore.
However earth based weapons might have limits or boundries as they are made accoording to the fysic's on earth wich is a lot differend then the fysic's in space.
To overcome this you can put up a armed sat into space right?
Also i think that radar systems on earth have limits as well wich a "sat radar" or some sort of space version does not have making it even harder to hide a sat and alot easier to track and attack one.....
Might be wrong....but sounds pretty mutch doable to me...:dbanana
A weapon in space itself does not have to be that spectaculair,
Get the targets coords, speed and so on.....calculate it and you got your solution...(funny but its nearly like a submarine torpedo attack)
Iam pretty sure that equipping a sat with a few icbm rockets with solid fuel boosters would do the trick, put a nifty computer into the warhead guided from the sat or a earth based control centre and you got yourself a mighty nice multifunctional weapon system.
However you want to ask yourself do you really want to got that way?
The weapons on earth are enough to kill the planet a 100k times and i personally think that a space weapon arms race would be the very last thing you want.
As controlling the weapons on earth have proven to be very very difficult and with the current tech we got at least some sort of warning and defence against for example nukes, however space weapons......well do the math.
just a idea..........