Re: China's plan for space junk?

From: Art Glick via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:21:35 -0500
I call B.S. on the Chinese!  Do they really think we're that stupid 
(fearless leader notwithstanding!)?  This is just a way of trying to 
mitigate criticism about developing space based weaponry.  What 
supposedly "works" on junk would work on an operational bird as well.

And which would you rather have to dodge?  One big piece of easily 
trackable junk or the likely thousands of pieces of still hazardous 
detritus that would be created and possibly pushed into an even 
higher orbit by their laser?


At 01:00 PM 1/16/2018, Ed Cannon [*] wrote:

>"China plans to destroy space junk with
>giant lasers":
>
>http://www.newsweek.com/china-plans-destroy-space-junk-giant-lasers-781276
>
>Here's the abstract of the original
>research article, "Impacts of orbital
>elements of space-based laser station
>on small scale space debris removal":
>
>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030402617312068
>
>Ed Cannon
>San Antonio, Texas, USA

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