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Originally Posted by Looger
never heard of that - but a friend of mine who's worked for the canadian space agency and bristol / magellan aerospace has said that a bag of sand in a faster / reverse orbit on the same plane would be the best way to down satellites. i wouldn't think you need a lot of force, those things are fragile.
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Nike Zeus was an interesting concept because it married a heavy high powered missile with a nuclear warhead to an F15, the Russian's stole the idea for the Mig 31 and suppossedly lost a lot of planes during testing to unstable and badly manufactured solid fuel boosters.
The Theory is that a grain of sand sitting in earth orbit and getting hit by a satellite traveling at thousands of miles an hour is like you or I getting hit with a high velocity bullet traveling at the speed of light, there's nothing to stop it at all. The brilliant pebble was a concept like that where it would intercept a satallites orbit from the opposite direction creating an instand and unavoidable kill.