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[size=2]Boeing's Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite (KE-ASAT) program is intended to provide the United States with the capability to neutralize hostile satellites. The objective of the KE-ASAT program is to define, develop, integrate and test the necessary Kill Vehicle (KV), weapon control subsystem component and subsystems technologies to demonstrate hit-to-kill performance, including debris mitigation against hostile satellites. [/size=2]
[b]Space.com reports: "Military planners paint a picture of inevitability concerning space weapons. Certain experts foresee a proliferation of anti-satellites and space mines. Others suggest urgent need for totally secure, jam-proof satellite links along with a squadron of quick-reaction space bombers.
Openly discussed by military space strategists, are orbiting laser and particle beam weapons that focus killer rays of energy to zap satellites, enemy warheads in flight, or even blast targets on Earth.
Thunder rods are tossed down from orbit, these kinetic-energy devices use their own mass and very high velocity to create a destructive effect.
Finally there are natural meteoroids. Good-sized fireballs of metal could be sent to Earth, aimed at targets of choice. These impactors leave a nice crater. Even better, they leave no radioactive debris…" [/b]