NTP2
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I was looking at this thread and started wondering.
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/obvious-next-project.182827/#post-2503917
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/obvious-next-project.182827/#post-2503917
Definitely not that…
No I do not that was about 20y before me.If you remember the early video game "Space War" where two ships are firing at each other but there's a gravity well in the way, so you have to curve your projectiles around it....
Most likelyHorribly violent, bloody, miserable, utterly silent.
I have read the books and I don’t think that it’s a bad idea is going to stop it when It happens.And FYI you don't want to have *any* kind of combat in LEO. The debris created by even limited warfare would eradicate everything in orbit, making the effects as seen in "Gravity" relatively minor. That would wipe out telecommunications of almost every type.
Horribly violent, bloody, miserable, utterly silent.
It’s still blood.Would it be bloody or would you blood freeze or boil when it touches space?
That is what I am thinking satellite against satellite. I expect that if they fire on it the US will start protecting them and that is probably what space war will look like.The beginnings of space combat may look like this:
Russia’s second Luch/Olymp launched earlier this year has been spotted hanging out near Eutelsat 3B, which provides communications to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South America. (Artist’s rendering of Eutelsat 3B: Eutelsat.)
Understood but spewing blood does not have the same meaning if it is ice cubes.It’s still blood.
Is being hit by a drone strike bloody warfare then, as well? If you've been targeted from 25,000 feet and that missile hits you, you're just pink mist. There isn't even a jawbone left to clean up and bury. What's left of you wouldn't fill a Poland Spring water bottle.Understood but spewing blood does not have the same meaning if it is ice cubes.
Both. At the same time.Would it be bloody or would you blood freeze or boil when it touches space?
Interesting concept and hard to visualize.Both. At the same time.
And probably excruciating to experience.Interesting concept and hard to visualize.
That guy is right that there will be no meat pilots on board. But he is wrong about there being no stealth in space. Objects are detected and tracked optically and by radar. Using aircraft stealth technology would work in space as well as in the atmosphere to prevent or delay radar detection/tracking. Optically, as well -- paint it flat black.I love that guy’s content it’s a 10/10.
Possible but I think that no one is going to sit and let someone jam their coms.There are not gong to be people fighting in space. It's also very unlikely we would see kinetic effects used in space, or at least LEO, because of the issues debris causes as mentioned earlier. Countries with the capability to kinetically destroy space based hardware would be putting their own hardware at risk by going kinetic. It would be possible to kinetically destroy a satellite in geosynchronous orbit with little to no side effects. It's also more difficult to shoot down a satellite in geosynchronous orbit. Electronic warfare is going to be where the space battle is fought. I'd bet the Russian satellite posted earlier is setup and positioned to do exactly that. Another option is terrestrial jamming to cause local outages of space based comms.
You are forgetting thermal radiation the all satellites have radiators and in a vacuum you have to have them to get rid of heat. The interceptor would be visible but it could out range and out delta V the target.But he is wrong about there being no stealth in space. Objects are detected and tracked optically and by radar. Using aircraft stealth technology would work in space as well as in the atmosphere to prevent or delay radar detection/tracking. Optically, as well -- paint it flat black.
RF emissions can be eliminated by communicating via laser.
Lol, I agree but if it is a space based jammer then your options are going to be limited. You either take out the emitter in space or the terrestrial control system. The latter becomes a lot more difficult if the control system is not located in the theatre of operations which is almost certainly going to be the case.Possible but I think that no one is going to sit and let someone jam their coms.
Mass Effect handled that by having the Normandy have heat sinks inside the hull where waste heat could be directed to. The issue was this only would work for so long before the heat would have to be vented and the entire ship started to cook.You are forgetting thermal radiation the all satellites have radiators and in a vacuum you have to have them to get rid of heat. The interceptor would be visible but it could out range and out delta V the target.
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