Comments on: Who benefits from the Chinese ASAT test http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: J Wheeler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-10685 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:02:42 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-10685 Reagan was right! If we would have started the Star Wars project in the 80’S we would be trillions of dollars ahead by now and not scrambling
for defense funds or weapons to fight this type of attack. With the majority of our modern military weapons reliant on GPS systems and satellite communications a major attack would throw us into a WWII type
military or worse. It is our technology advances that have kept us safe and the leaders of modern society. With no modern industrial complex to equip us our future would surely be bleak.

]]> By: Adrasteia http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-9811 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:18:34 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-9811 Ot, but the new page is very pretty.

]]> By: richardb http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-9810 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:10:45 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-9810 This event will be the gift that keeps on giving. The USA had so many space control programs budgeted, its hard to see what could be new, but I’m sure they will be found. Look for black program growth. Adding fire to this was the Chinese PLA spokeswoman at Davos quoted as saying the Chinese believe its inevitable that space will be weaponized and that there will be two space superpowers, Chinese and American. One good thing out of this, the DOD might decide the Iraq war is too costly now that space warfare is what the Chinese are preparing for.

]]> By: Thomas Lee Elifritz http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-9809 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:50:02 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-9809 maximum benefit to the warfighter.

There are no benefits in fighting wars.

]]> By: Allen Thomson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-9808 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:28:33 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-9808 > responses on the order of hours-days

Hours, since we’re very likely talking about a real shooting war where things are happening quickly. IMO, the proper model to bear in mind here is a modern ICBM.

Probably, for orbitological reasons, you would want to have two or more launch sites well separated in longitude. Or a ready-to-go air launch capability.

(All this once again reminds me of General Moorman, who noted that one Titan IV + spysat took longer to get off the pad than the time between Pearl Harbor and VJ Day.)

]]> By: Tom http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-9807 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:46:26 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-9807 I’m closer to Rand on this. Payloads are important, but when you need responses on the order of hours-days, the only part of the puzzle left is the launch. Any satellite not built, checked out, and likely continuously operating by that time won’t be flying with the necessary speed.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/01/26/who-benefits-from-the-chinese-asat-test/#comment-9806 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:25:44 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1210#comment-9806 Well, I did note the need for payloads as well. I think we’re in violent agreement.

]]>