U.S. Deploys Orbital Communications Jammer

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edited September 2005 in Science & 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

Comments

  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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?
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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 :fold:
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited September 2005
    Saw the pretty contrails fom the Vandenburg launch last night, all the way over here in Tucson..........or was that a UFO? :scratch::scratch:
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited September 2005
    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 :fold:


    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.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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 :fold:
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