US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites

www.space.com US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites

"We are changing the way targeting is done across the joint community when it comes to space and electromagnetic warfare."

US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites::The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations' satellites and the ground stations that support them.

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"Are we the baddies?"
- "Our patches? They've got skulls on them..."
Man why do they have to make these cringey symbols for units like these? This is space, we should have something cooler.
- Ope I see we have different tastes lmao
  
  It probably speaks to the people that would want to join it. I'm not the target audience!
- Honestly, it looks like a gamer tag icon from back in the Halo 2 days lol
US Space Force: "Stop laughing, we really do have a purpose!"

Things could get interesting if they start competing with the Navy to be another taxi service for the Marines though.
- I'm willing to bet that the Navy will take over the task of commanding spaceships when we start with the space imperialism
  
  At the very least, all their best officers will get transferred to space force. There isn't really any direct earthly parellel to space warfare and logistics, but naval warfare and logistics is as close as it gets
- Yeah but Space Marines though.
  
  Yes please.
  
  "Fuck off, boot, the moon isn't even a real deployment!"
That’s a cool logo. I wonder who designs them
- It was a missed opportunity to use a Terminator on the patch.
  
  Ya, instead we got Skeletor. Who would have thought?
I really hope they don't act out on blowing up satellites. Kessler Syndrome will ruin any hopes of future space habitation and exploration for generations to come.
- Could burn out their sensors, brick the hardware or otherwise make them useless without creating a new debris cloud.
- Possibly steal the satellites and deorbit them to avoid this.
All thing aside, the logo goes hard fr
- Honestly thought it was clickhole content
Will they take out their own satellites too? Since they spy on their own citizens...
- Satellites aren't the spying medium I'm worried about
CoD: Infinite Warfare
Taking out satellites can lead to a chain reaction destroying even more satellites...
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- From the article, "These systems range from ground-based lasers that can blind optical sensors on satellites to devices that can jam signals or conduct cyberattacks to hack into adversary satellite systems."
  
  If that guy could read I think he’d be mightily offended.
- I was about to comment “I wonder what techniques they’ll use to disable satellites without blowing them to dangerous smithereens.”
  
  But I see you’ve assumed they’re idiots and will do exactly that. I think you could give people a little more credit. They’re at least as knowledgeable as you, random internet person.
  
  It wouldn't be the first time a military would blow up something in orbit just to see it go kaboom.
  
  But wait! There's more. My favorite space fuckup is the West Ford project. What's better than crushing the existing satellites into million pieces, you ask? Skipping the satellite phase, and bringing up the millions of pieces just to releaae them into orbit deliberately.
  
  The West Ford project conducted by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the US Air Force in the early 1960s was a notable example. The project’s purpose was to create an 8 km (5 mi) wide, 40 km (25 mi) thick band of tiny copper wire segments in a near-polar orbit around the Earth as a passive radio reflector for military communications. In the first attempted deployment, in October 1961, the payload failed to disperse as planned. Eventually, seven small objects from the failed attempt were catalogued as orbital debris. The objects, with radar cross-sections between 0.06 m2 (0.6 ft2) and 0.6 (6.5 ft2), are still in orbit at an altitude of about 3,600 km (2,250 mi). A second West Ford project deployment attempt in May 1963 carried a payload of 480 million copper needles, each 1.8 cm (0.7 in.) long and 0.00178 cm (0.0007 in.) in diameter. Project planners expected solar radiation pressure to deorbit the needles in only a few years. However, only one-fourth to one-half of the needles dispersed as planned. Most remained in clumps that were more resistant to orbital decay. Eventually, 144 clumps from that attempt were identified and tracked; forty-six of them remained in orbit in 2013, but only nine of them had perigees less than 2,000 km (1,240 mi). Individual needles are too small to track.
  
  The History of Space Debris - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  
  I mean on the one hand they probably know what they're doing, on the other hand they think a skull in a triangle makes them look cool. Just saying.
- everybody except me is an idiot. I watched Sandra Bullock pretend to be in space and am therefore am expert. I am very smart.
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