#spaceweapons — Public Fediverse posts

Asteroid impact avoidance (Earth 🌍)

Asteroid impact avoidance encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted, preventing destructive impact events. An impact by a sufficiently large asteroid or other NEOs would cause, depending on its impact location, massive tsunamis or multiple firestor...

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

#AsteroidImpactAvoidance #Earth #Asteroids #Prevention #ImpactEvents #SpaceWeapons

French startup developing space weapon to defend satellites and clean orbital debris

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/french-startup-developing-space-weapon-to-defend-satellites-and-clean-orbital-debris/

Is it time for a new Outer Space Treaty? Reports of Russian nuclear space weapon raise questions

https://www.space.com/new-outer-space-treaty-russia-nuclear-space-weapon

#space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #spacecraft #spacetreaty #russia #spaceweapons #spacewar

📆 1962 Before the test 💥, scientists thought the impact of #StarfishPrime on Earth’s #radiation belts would be minimal. “It came as a surprise how bad it was, and how long it lasted, and how damaging it was to #satellites 🛰️ " https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/why-the-us-once-set-off-a-nuclear-bomb-in-space-called-starfish-prime

#NuclearBomb #SpaceWeapons

🇫🇷 The #French #SpaceCommand was created on 📆 July 13, 2019. €5 billion 💰 for the development of its #spatial capacities https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/27437-asterx-france-starts-first-military-exercise-in-space

#SpaceWeapons ready by 📆 2025 https://www.politico.eu/article/france-lists-lasers-weapons-surveillance-satellites-in-space-defense-plan/

U. intelligence says serious threat to national security is Russia’s plan to put a nuclear weapon into space

According to ABC News, Russia may want to use a nuclear weapon against satellites rather than drop it on the Earth. One of the media’s sources called such reports “a big deal,” which is “very concerning and very sensitive.”

https://kyivindependent.com/abc-news-alleged-serious-threat-to-us-national-security-links-to-russias-plans-to-put-nukes-in-space/

#RussianAggression #Imperialism #nuclear #space #NuclearWeapons #satellites #weapons #SpaceWeapons #StopRussianAggression #nukes #war

I stumbled across an FCC filing by this company and got intrigued. It's funded by JD Vance's VC firm Narya, and seems to be the first space start-up focused on military missions in low earth orbit: rendezvous proxity operations (hunting & surveillance) at first, with its CEO Even Rogers (ex-USAF major) suggesting the possibility of weapons in the future. #spaceweapons #leo #jdvance #trueanomaly