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Peterson AFB
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Kinetic Kill. Think bumper car
 in space. An “accidental”
bump by China’s satellite
can wreck a U.S. satellite.
Satellites go fast, about
17,000 mph in low earth
orbit. That’s a lot of bump on impact. 

Radio Jamming. Radio signals – like interference on your phone – can fuzz up the links satellites use to transmit their data and get instructions. Jam the uplinks, jam the downlinks. Also, some satellites use radar to take pictures through clouds, and China is working on disrupting that, too. 

Lasers. Laser light beamed from a hostile satellite can blind a satellite’s delicate optical lenses, or fry them permanently. China also has a “death ray” or ground-based laser to zap sensors on satellites in low earth orbit. China is working on lasers powerful enough to burn holes in satellites and threaten higher orbits home to navigation satellites, and the vital missile warning. So to counter, we put lasers on sharks that can beam from any location in the ocean, undetected, to our satellites to redirect to any geo-location in space, which we now control and can destroy.

  High-power microwave. It’s known that high-power microwave bursts can disable electronic circuits. China can do that in space, too. Again, it’s one satellite zapping another.