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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: numerous/ 1:ASAT 2:Water 3:misquotes
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:17:52 GMT
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- In <Bzpyuw.MIG.1@cs.cmu.edu> 0001964967@mcimail.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
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- > While very few nations have the capability to destroy orbiting
- >satellites, countries have another option. It is relatively
- >trivial to "blind" or otherwise disable
- >an overhead platform. In simplified terms, just take a few
- >megawatts of power, hook it up to a radar unit, slide through
- >a few frequencies, and there go the satellite systems.
-
- This is another "idiot" argument. You assume that people who
- spend their lives designing and building satellites for the
- Defense Department aren't as smart enough to realize that
- satellites are vulnerable to electronic interference and take
- steps to harden them against it. I can assure you, they are.
- No, don't bother asking for details. I don't know and couldn't
- tell you if I did.
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