Space militarization is becoming more complicated.

A Polish company was hired to deploy data-center satellites with high-power microwave weapons. Those satellites can destroy incoming anti-satellite weapons. But satellites can also use the same microwave weapons to destroy other satellites. Satellites play a vital role in modern military operations. This means. They are top-priority targets for enemy operations. Satellites search for targets. For aircraft and drones. They navigate aircraft, ships, and weapons to targets. 

Satellites operate at all levels. In military operations. Strategies and tactics. They base data on what satellites collect. Modern satellite technology. It allows command and control of individual soldiers from another side of the world. 

Combined combat tactics. The principle is precise knowledge of the location of one's own troops and the enemy. Next-generation tools like combat robots require more advanced data connections. Those satellites are becoming vital elements in combat scenarios. 

Artillery, gunship helicopters, and aircraft.  They require location knowledge to operate precisely and accurately. This means that those systems require satellites. Satellites connect forces under one centralized command. Without those satellites, the HQ cannot command and deliver supplies. Nuclear submarines also need satellites to provide operational launch codes to their missiles and other nukes. Submarines cannot launch without those codes. And that’s why those communication satellites are targets for killer satellites. 

Pentagon says that ASAT weapons are the priority on the list. And we can guess that Russia thinks the same. Russia has tested its own anti-satellite capacity. And that thing requires a counter-reaction. 

The role of satellites is becoming bigger all the time. New hypersonic missiles require ultra-fast reaction. If. A suspected hypersonic missile launch. There is no time to send AWACS to search for the enemy and control defenses.

Another problem is that AWACS is a potential target for high-speed anti-radiation missiles. The third thing is that. There are not enough AWACS platforms to cover the entire world. This is why the Pentagon wants to create a satellite network. That covers the entire planet. This network of radar satellites. It can detect threats in less than one second. But those satellites. They are vulnerable to ASAT missiles that can detect radar signals. 

Satellites can drop drone swarms into operational areas. They can rise targets and mark them. This is the satellites' priority in operations: reconnaissance. Reconnaissance satellites. Make real-time command-and-control battles possible. They play a vital role in all kinds of transportation and affect operations. Reconnaissance and attack patrols, as well as drone swarms, use satellites for navigation. Maybe quite soon. Satellites can launch conventional air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. Those missiles can hit things like strategic bombers. Even. Individual vehicles. 

Weapons make them killer satellites. This means that there are killer and counter-killer satellites. The problem with killer satellites is that they are good targets for other killer satellites. But the problem is how to uncover those satellites. But. If a killer satellite loses its shield. The other satellites can destroy it. The orbital nukes can cause massive destruction with an EMP impulse. 

In many scenarios. Thermonuclear war begins with an EMP strike. The EMP weapon is hidden in the regular-looking satellite. When. That satellite is in the right position. The EMP weapon detonates. And that electromagnetic pulse hits the ground. The disaster can be huge. When we think about cases like the Starfish Prime nuclear test over Honolulu on June 9, 1962, the entire city went down. Modern technology is more vulnerable to EMP than older technology. 

The EMP pulse from 1,4 megaton warhead. Detonated at an altitude of about 400 kilometers. Destroyed things. Like 1960s radios. This kind of weapon can be launched just before the nuclear strike. And those systems. They require a very fast reaction. The microwave pulses are also EMP weapons. The system can create the EMP microwave using high-power capacitors. The system can use solar panels to create that destructive pulse. The system is very easy to make. And the fact is that. Any satellite that carries this kind of counter-ASAT system can use it against other satellites. 

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/satellite-defense-ares-shield-contract-lonestar-data-holdings

https://www.twz.com/space/new-anti-satellite-weapons-now-officially-a-top-u-s-priority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

Russia's new cruise missiles use a TEMU engine.

Russia's new S8000 Banderol missile. It’s like a hobbyist package turned into a military role. That new, cheap cruise missile is being developed. To be used against soft targets like radars. Those missiles can cause problems. Because if they are used with other, more advanced missiles. They can be dangerous. Ukraine dropped one of them with a very old AA gun. That doesn’t mean that those missiles are harmless. They are cheap and probably easy to manufacture. Those hobby-kit missiles can also be transported to positions. There, they can make surprise attacks. Missiles that can be manufactured or assembled in the operational area are a big risk.  Those systems can be smuggled into the country—the origin of the parts. of that missile. It's also a depressing thing to read. That shows the real effect of the sanctions against Russia.

Their operators can. Put those parts into their position. And use those missiles even from their balcony. This is a new threat. Things. Like artificial intelligence and cheap image recognition tools make those systems deadlier than ever before. The hobby-kit missiles are tools. That took their position in the war. Low-cost missiles and drones are tools. That can cause problems for every system. They can attack large carriers’ radars and communication systems. In the same way, small cruise missiles can be deadly against aircraft. 

S8000 has another drone as its primary launch platform. And that missile. It can also be integrated with the Mi-28 Havoc. The standard kit uses inertial and satellite guidance systems. But there are dreams of using AI and optical target recognition systems to boost its accuracy. The suspected system uses the WEB camera. And an AI-based target recognition sensor. This makes. The system can find its targets with high accuracy. The system works like this. Inertial and satellite navigation guide the missile to the line of the target. When its camera sees the target. 

And recognizes it. That missile dives toward it. Those missiles can use things like an anti-radar kit. That system turns them into anti-radiation missiles. Those missiles can be used against radars, jammers, and communication tools. There is a possibility that, if those systems have the right codes. They can search for and locate individual GSM telephones on the streets. AI makes those systems dangerous. They can make evasion maneuvers. And they are easy to buy. So, in the wrong hands, those hobby-kit missiles can cause terrible damage. 

https://aeronaut.media/articles-en/en-russian-s8000-banderol-all-about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S8000_Banderol

New winds for interstellar probes.

“Light sails can propel spacecraft using the energy of the Sun. Credit: NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart” (ScitechDaily, Humanity May Soon Have the Technology To Reach Other Star Systems)

A large Mylar structure with a metal shell. It can. Make it possible. To create a large radar satellite. That satellite can look like a spinning version of the Solar sail. The system uses Doppler radar. For making highly accurate radar images. The same technology is used in photonic solar sails. It can be used to create orbital mirrors. That turn laser beams in the right direction. 

These kinds of mirrors can be used for systems that turn high-energy laser beams. Into systems. That can destroy satellites and high-flying aircraft. Megawatt-class laser beams can be created by using multiple smaller lasers. Those lasers can be ground-based. Or. Orbital lasers. Large-sized Mylar structures. They can help to keep the thermal level lower. But then, to interplanetary and interstellar solar sails. 

Solar sails are always similar systems. The interplanetary solar sail uses solar wind to push it forward. The interstellar version uses photons. The interplanetary solar sail can also carry massive radar in its structure. That radar can be used to research the internal structures of the planets. 

There is a possibility. To use those solar sails for interstellar travel. The problem is the weak thrust of photons. In an ideal mission, a solar sail uses the plasma flow to travel out of the solar system. And then a massive laser starts to push it into interstellar space. 

Maybe humans will get the technology to travel to other solar systems sooner than we thought. The first probe that we will send to other solar systems. It could be the photonic solar sail. The photonic solar sail can ride on a photonic beam. 

First, that solar sail could use the solar wind. Plasma that the Sun sends into space for acceleration. When the distance to the Sun increases, the system. It can transform to use a photonic drive. The thrust that photons give is so low. The solar sail must use some other systems. To accelerate to a speed high enough for the sail. It can travel out of the solar system. 

“An artist's conception of the Project Orion. "Basic” spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse propulsion.” (Wikipedia, Nuclear pulse propulsion)

One promising first-stage acceleration system is called Nuclear pulse propulsion. 

In the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force proposed Project Orion. The idea was to use a series of low-yield nuclear explosions. To send a rocket to other planets. Those nuclear bombs were planned to detonate behind the spacecraft. That thrust could carry the Orion spacecraft to Mars and farther. Then some researchers. 

They had an idea. To create a combination of Orion and a solar sail. The system uses nuclear bombs to accelerate the solar sail. The system can use other rockets to transport those bombs into the right positions. When. The solar sail travels past those nukes. The system detonates the explosives. 

The system is called the Medusa drive. Medusa system. It can be used to transport the laser that the interstellar solar sail needs to the edge of the solar system. There, the laser starts to accelerate. This interstellar. Solar sail. In every case, that solar sail. 

The system uses hybrid technology. First, it uses the solar wind. Then it can use nuclear detonations. And finally, the laser beam pushes it forward. The small nuclear detonations can also push the solar sail. Into the journey. To the Alpha Centauri system. Another way is to use electron-positron annihilation. This annihilation can create the particle flow that pushes the solar sail forward. 

https://scitechdaily.com/humanity-may-soon-have-the-technology-to-reach-other-star-systems/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion

https://www.reddit.com/r/Boooks1234/s/1z6sflXoLU