During the war in Iraq, an attempt was made to block the US Army's GPS satellites
Dr. Noah Brosh
GPS-guided bombs (pictured) depend entirely on the operation of satellites
Do the American satellites placed in the sky need protection against targeted attacks? The commander of the United States' strategic forces, Admiral James Ellis, believes that it certainly is. At a conference on space issues held about a month ago in the United States, the admiral expressed grave concern about attempts by hostile forces to damage American satellites. According to him, it is time to "do something" to protect the sensitive celestial equipment. Ellis is apparently not completely paranoid: in his lecture he revealed that during the war in Iraq an attempt was made to block the satellite transmissions of the GPS system used to navigate smart bombs, which the Americans used a lot. In the age of modern wars, in which "smart weapons" are widely used, any damage to such a sophisticated system will significantly disrupt main moves.
Ellis warned about the satellite operators' inability to know if a spacecraft system is under attack or if the disruption in its operation is caused naturally. Apart from electronic jamming and jamming of the GPS system, Ellis described the possibility of "jamming" the operation of intelligence photography satellites. By the way, even during the Cold War there was talk of the Russian attempt to "blind" American spy satellites using a laser.
The admiral refrained from mentioning another type of attack, using "space interceptors". This is not science fiction - such a system was included in the "Star Wars" project of the Reagan administration. This is an aircraft that approaches the satellite and is able to hit it or blow it up from afar. It is estimated that the Americans already have robotic spacecraft that are able to approach satellites, photograph them closely or drop parts from them. This technology may also be used to save the Hubble Space Telescope, which urgently needs an "overall".
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