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A Chinese team said it had developed a small but powerful laser device that could be used on a satellite, but would only be deployed for non-destructive purposes.

The device could be used in a wide range of applications, including identifying a target, tracking, imaging and high-speed communication, said project lead scientist Liu Chong, of the college of optical science and engineering at Zhejiang University, in a paper published in the domestic peer-reviewed journal Aerospace Shanghai last month.

The device can generate a powerful 1 megawatt laser light and can fire 100 shots per second for nearly half an hour without overheating in a space environment, according to its developers.

The pulse laser device – which is about the size of a 500ml (16.7 fluid ounce) can – could fit in a small satellite and weighs less than 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds), including the power source.
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Anyone care to guess when DEWs? will be ubiquitous? I am guessing in about 10-20 years.
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Russians Reportedly Building a Satellite-Blinding Laser – An Expert Explains the Technology
by Iain Boyd
August 14, 2022

Introduction:
(IFL Science) Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical sensors of other nations’ spy satellites by flooding them with laser light.

Laser technology has evolved to the point where this type of anti-satellite defense is plausible, though there is limited evidence of any nation successfully testing such a laser.

If the Russian government is able to build the laser, it would be capable of shielding a large part of the country from the view of satellites with optical sensors. The technology also sets the stage for the more ominous possibility of laser weapons that can permanently disable satellites.
The article goes on to briefly explain some of the basics of laser technology, as well as discuss successful and unsuccessful attempts by the U.S. to employ lasers for military uses.

Read more here: https://www.iflscience.com/russians-re ... ogy-64885
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Doozer wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 6:21 am Anyone care to guess when DEWs? will be ubiquitous? I am guessing in about 10-20 years.
More of what debris the space lasers will add to up there. Unless they got the Ion Cannon from Tiberian Sun up there not much else is a concern at the moment.
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Lockheed Martin has delivered a 300-kilowatt laser — its most powerful laser to date — to the U.S. military's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering OUSD (R&E), the company announced on Thursday.

The laser was developed under the Pentagon's High Energy Laser Scaling Initiative (HELSI), which is an effort by the department to strengthen the directed energy industrial base and improve the quality of laser beams, as per Breaking Defense.
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U.S. Army’s Indirect Fires Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) Demonstrator laser weapon system.
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I wonder if the United States military is secretly developing a ground- or sea-based Death Star-class directed energy weapon which aims to vaporize ballistic and hypersonic missiles over great distances? What if Tesla or another battery storage company is working with the Pentagon to install an underground gigawatt or even terawatt battery storage system to power such weapon? It would certainly negate the threat posed by legacy nuclear weapon delivery systems.
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