U.S. Deploys Orbital Communications Jammer

23 Sep, 2005 at 10:40am ET Article published in Tech

The Washington Times is reporting on an electronic-warfare unit the U.S. Air Force has recently deployed that is capable of jamming enemy satelites.

According to General Lance Lord of the Colorado-based Air Force Space Command Center, the top priorities of the space command are monitoring space and knowing the threats. Two other missions are defending satellites and conducting offensive operations against enemy spacecraft or ground signals that threaten U.S. satellites.

“You can’t go to war and win without space,” said Gen. Lance Lord, the four-star general in charge of the Colorado-based Air Force Space Command.

Source: The Washington Times

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23 Sep 2005 ~ 10:43am GHoosdum As a test of the new system, I hope they jam Time Warner's satellite feeds, and then blast their satellites out of the sky with lasers.

Seriously, though, I thought that the US was in treaties with Russia (and maybe others) to ban space-based weapons systems?
23 Sep 2005 ~ 12:32pm drasnor IIRC America withdrew from those treaties near the beginning of the Bush presidency when it decided to start developing anti-ballistic missile technology again.

-drasnor
23 Sep 2005 ~ 4:19pm RADA Saw the pretty contrails fom the Vandenburg launch last night, all the way over here in Tucson..........or was that a UFO?
23 Sep 2005 ~ 4:22pm RADA

drasnor wrote:

IIRC America withdrew from those treaties near the beginning of the Bush presidency when it decided to start developing anti-ballistic missile technology again.

-drasnor

We withdrew from these treaties because we( & England) were the only ones that were living up to the treaties in the first place. China & Russia wouldn't let unfettered inspection access to their facilities.
24 Sep 2005 ~ 8:40pm drasnor

RADA wrote:

We withdrew from these treaties because we( & England) were the only ones that were living up to the treaties in the first place. China & Russia wouldn't let ufettered inspection access to their facilities.

Makes sense to me, I agreed with the decision then and now. No sense stretching our neck out on the block to assuage the fears of now-defunct governments.

-drasnor