Russia is developing a powerful laser system
Active space exploration by leading technological Powers led to clogging of near-Earth space with a huge amount of all kinds of garbage. These space objects constitute a great danger to the spacecraft and satellites being put into orbit because of the possibility of collision with them.
In the upper atmosphere, the International Space Station is protected by the Earth's magnetic field. With an unenviable regularity several times a year, the ISS has to perform maneuvers of evading space debris that is dangerous for it. Japanese scientists put forward the original idea of placing laser guns at the station that could vaporize small objects with their own rays or push larger ones into the earth's atmosphere, where they could burn without a trace. About such a project, we We wrote earlier. But the transformation of the ISS into a resemblance to the "Death Star" was faced with the problem of energy consumption. After each such shot from laser guns, the orbital station would be de-energized for a considerable time.
A more original project to combat space debris has appeared in Russia, which also conjures up associations from the famous Star Wars. Roscosmos is developing a facility that can destroy dangerous objects in low orbits with a powerful laser pulse directly from the surface of the Earth. The basis for the future space defense system is proposed to take the optical telescope under construction in Altai with a mirror 3 meters in diameter, which is located at an altitude of 650 meters above sea level.
At the moment, his tasks are to search and track space objects and their trajectories. Being equipped with a domestic-made solid-state generator for generating laser pulses, the telescope can turn into a kind of guns, with which the rebels fought off the imperial landing in a Hollywood blockbuster. In the future, the number of laser stations can be increased to 25 pieces.
In the upper atmosphere, the International Space Station is protected by the Earth's magnetic field. With an unenviable regularity several times a year, the ISS has to perform maneuvers of evading space debris that is dangerous for it. Japanese scientists put forward the original idea of placing laser guns at the station that could vaporize small objects with their own rays or push larger ones into the earth's atmosphere, where they could burn without a trace. About such a project, we We wrote earlier. But the transformation of the ISS into a resemblance to the "Death Star" was faced with the problem of energy consumption. After each such shot from laser guns, the orbital station would be de-energized for a considerable time.
A more original project to combat space debris has appeared in Russia, which also conjures up associations from the famous Star Wars. Roscosmos is developing a facility that can destroy dangerous objects in low orbits with a powerful laser pulse directly from the surface of the Earth. The basis for the future space defense system is proposed to take the optical telescope under construction in Altai with a mirror 3 meters in diameter, which is located at an altitude of 650 meters above sea level.
At the moment, his tasks are to search and track space objects and their trajectories. Being equipped with a domestic-made solid-state generator for generating laser pulses, the telescope can turn into a kind of guns, with which the rebels fought off the imperial landing in a Hollywood blockbuster. In the future, the number of laser stations can be increased to 25 pieces.
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