Astroscale proposes fleet of 'bodyguard' spacecraft to protect satellites from orbital attacks
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Astroscale proposes fleet of 'bodyguard' spacecraft to protect satellites from orbital attacks
Technologies developed and tested in orbit to remove space junk and fix broken satellites can be speedily repurposed to build fleets of bodyguard spacecraft to protect important satellites from adversary attacks, space clean-up company Astroscale thinks.Astroscale made history with its 2024 up-close in-orbit inspection of a discarded Japanese rocket stage during the pioneering ADRAS-J mission in low Earth orbit (LEO), the region of space below a…
Astroscale, a Japanese space debris removal company, proposes a fleet of ships that protect military satellites without attaching to them. The project would cost about 1% of the UK's Skynet network, and the first prototype can be ready in three years.
In outer space, the threat no longer comes only from debris, but also from neighbouring satellites, so countries are beginning to bet on spacecraft to protect their space infrastructure as would a bodyguard.
Astroscale proposes to create a group of space guards to protect Western satellites from potential attacks by Russia.
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