France Sparks The First Global Arms Race In Outer Space Part 2 V1.1c
5.1.3. The U.S.
The U.S. will mechanically react to the Russian move. Currently the only power to have deployed DEW in earth orbits, the only hurdle will be economic, with more than 22 trillion dollars of debt, making it a virtual beggar, dependent of the Chinese and Japanese financial godsends.
Moreover, the U.S. will continue its
beggar bowl's world tour, as long as it needs to import Rare Earth Elements (R.E.E.) from China and the other R.E.E. exporters of the B.R.I.V.S. (Brazil, Russia, India, Vietnam, South Africa), only to stay afloat in the space arms race.
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▲ 16. With more than 22 trillion dollars of debt, the U.S. will continue its beggar bowl's world tour, and as long as it needs to import Rare Earth Elements (R.E.E.) from China.
The concept of
Adaptive Optics (A.O.) was first proposed in a 1953 paper by astronomer Horace Babcock.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the U.S. military and aerospace communities built the first significant adaptive optics systems to target laser on orbiting satellites from the ground.
In the 1973s, the USAF
Airborne Laser Laboratory (ALL), a modified NKC-135A aircraft, was the first test platform for airborne High Energy Laser (HEL) research.
Its carbon dioxide gas dynamic laser power output was 480 kW at 10,6 μm, able to direct a heat flux density of 100 W/cm² on a 1 km target, such as AIM-9 missiles and drones.
Lacking an Adaptive Optics system, the ALL was limited by atmospheric turbulence.
In 1984, the
Space Based Laser (SBL) program was cancelled due to technological and political difficulties.
With a range of 4'000 km (up to 12'000 km), a spot size of 0.3 to 1.0 meter at focus, this orbital combat system would have weighted 35 tons and orbited at 800-1'300 km altitude. With an orbit inclination of 40°, giving a coverage per satellite of about a tenth of the earth's surface, thus requiring a 20 satellites configuration for global world coverage.
The 8 meter mirror is segmented so that it can be folded inside a launch vehicle and unfurled in orbit like flower petals.
Its deuterium-fluoride laser at 2.7 mm would have produced an 5-10 MW output.
Ground 100 kW weapons also exist, such as the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL TVD) program managed by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command’s (USASMDC/ARSTRAT).
The HEL TVD is designed to counter drones, rockets, artillery, and mortars (C-RAM/UAS).
The high energy laser system represents very low operating costs, as it requires only
fuel to complete its mission, with an average cost per kill of approximately $30. There is no ordnance logistics burden, as with conventional weapons.
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▲ 17. Team Dynetics 100kW-class high energy laser contract for U.S. Army. May 2019
Of course, these tactical ranges will need to be extended to several hundred of km to several thousand of km, in order to be useful from LEO. The aperture of the optics will also needed to be increased to decametric size. Aperture of 2.4 m optics and above have been orbited such as the
Program 1010.
Thus the need of and uprated powerplant. Nuclear energy is the best option for this electric driven laser, keeping in mind that there is no oxygen for fuel generated electricity in earth orbit.
The U.S.
fission space reactor SP-100, although cancelled, could provide 100 kW electric power, with as little as 140 kg of Uranium 235, and a reactor mass of 5.42 tons.
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▲ 18. The U.S. SP-100 fission space reactor can generate 100 kW electric power.
In comparison, the four sets of arrays of the
International Space Station (I.S.S.) are capable of generating 84 to 120 kilowatts of electricity. Each of the eight solar arrays is 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. A solar array's wingspan of 240 feet (73 meters).
The Falcon-Heavy can deliver payloads of 63 tons into LEO.
Payload fairing can house a payload of 12 m long 4.6 m diameter cylinder with 5 more meters on top but with decreased conical diameter thus totalling 17 m.
Enough for any large truck-sized DEW module.
The U.S. has demonstrated its ability to deploy complex array of military satellites, such as the
NOSS triplets and the GPS global navigation satellite system (GNSS) program.
To operate these space DEW, under the proposal approved by President Trump in May 2019, the
U.S. Space Force would be organized under the Department of the Air Force.
5.1.3.1. The U.S. 42'000 Starlinks
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SpaceX Space Transportation Systems enables the deployment of the Starlink Orbital Satellite Array with 42'000 orbital platforms and its continuous upkeep, with the reusable VTVL Falcon 9 series rockets, and above.
Starlink is obviously totally misunderstood therefore overlooked by the world's leaders and masses, as this Trojan Horse is working 100% according to the U.S.' plan to fool the feeble-minded.
As of July 2020, 100% of the world headlines are dedicated to the COVID-19 smokescreen, unleashed on purpose by the U.S. to distract the world masses from the current Starlink weapon system build-up.
This is obviously a replay of the Cold War era classic, known as
Project Azorian that used the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer to retrieve secret codebooks and a R-21 nuclear missile on a sunken Soviet submarine from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 and under the cover of mining manganese nodules from the sea floor.
Today, the Project Azorian is replaced by the Starlink Program, the mining of manganese nodule by the 5G internet service, the ship Hughes Glomar Explorer by the Falcon-9 rocket, the billionaire businessman Howard Hughes by billionaire businessman Elon Musk.
And as a goal, the Soviet secret codebooks and a R-21 nuclear missile are replaced by the introduction of one of the the most advanced secret warfare of the U.S. since 1950s.
This weapon system is so versatile that few have really realized its full scope:
•First its
overt active application, as advertised, apparently just an innocent civilian simple internet service with worldwide coverage.
•Then its real
covert passive application, as a tool to eavesdrop on every nation worldwide, by collecting passively all cellular communication signals, and those from any electronic devices such as CCTV, digital camera, etc.
•Another
covert active application, is the use when combined in synthetic aperture mode, to obtain high resolution microwave imagery made possible by a synthetic orbital array extending over several hundreds of kilometers baseline (500 km to 1000 km), that can scan all interior buildings, including humans. The Starlink platforms are indeed fitted with inter-satellite laser links, making possible the accurate ranging and timing needed in the positioning of this array.
• When Quantum Computers are used to process all the Petabytes harvested 24/7/365 by the array of 42'000 Starlink satellites, from all the cellphone base stations on Earth, and decipher then analyse, then combined with the high resolution microwave imagery obtained through the synthetic orbital array, it gives the U.S. military the
God's Eye view capability.
•For offensive
covert active operation, it is even possible to jam electronics of a target.
•For offensive
covert active operation, the lower intensity microwave beams can be directed against biological targets, causing cancerous tissues that could later metastases, and ending with a death looking natural. But this mode requires a long 'treatment' period.
•For offensive
covert active operation, the microwave beams can kill instantly with the high intensity output. Similar to a sniper strike.
•For offensive
overt active operation, during a full scale war, where secrecy is no longer required, massive attacks are possible, with large use of the beam steering and beam forming mode, entire infantry divisions could be wiped out in a matter of minutes.
•For offensive
overt active operation, it enables the age of the
Internet of Military Things (IoMT) warfare
•In addition, it has even more powerful military applications, as the materialization of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.
5.1.3.1.1. Star Wars V2.0
The Starlink dual-use civilian-military all solar-powered Megawatt-level space-based orbital microwaves (12 GHz-75 GHz) DEW platform project was officially launched in 2018, and its total mass of 3'120 tons requires the use of multiple powerful Falcon-9 launches.
To finally circumvent all the previous challenges of power output (at least 10 MW per target strike), range (no more than 550 km from target), mass (totaling 700 tons made of 20 platform of 35 tons), heat flux density (100 W/cm²), spot size at focus (0.3-1.0 m), the Starlink program has simply multiplied the number of platforms to 12'000 units for the first phase of its planned deployment.
Each satellites with a mass of 260 kg, and powered by solar panels, are fitted with four powerful phased array antenna thus enabling to track targets with beam steering and beam forming.
The total orbited mass exceeds 7 times that of the previous 1984 SBL concept.
To allow the weapon system to engage more ground targets, the phase two and three will add 15'000 more platforms each, up to a total of 42'000 within years.
It is by combining the beams of each platforms, that the critical threshold of 100 W/cm² heat flux density at focus point can be achieved. This staggering 42'000 number of platform is not an overkill but is really needed to compensate for all the losses due to external atmospheric conditions, line of sight, etc.
By looking at a very crude estimation of the number of platforms that will have a line of sight of 550 km range at any point of the earth (excluding the polar regions), at any time 24/7/365, the number reaches 170.
This estimate was made by loading all the official orbital elements or Two Line Element Set (TLE) available online and published by the the U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
But this
Master Catalogue only comprises 25'000 tracked orbital objects.
We counted manually 340 satellites over the horizon at an elevation above 50 degree, that is within the 550 km range.
Of course the Starlink satellites are only orbiting in LEO not in GEO nor in HEO.
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▲ 19. Number of platforms that have a line of sight of 550 km range at any point of the earth (excluding the polar regions), at any time: for a 25'000 array, no less than 340 satellites over the horizon at an elevation above 50 degree.
The total number of platforms of a completed Starlink array of 42'000 satellites within striking range of any point on earth reaches therefore 1190.
This means that each of the 1190 satellites within striking range would have to beam 8'400 W output for a total combined 10 MW to the ground target, largely enough to reach a heat flux density of above 100 W/cm² threshold, thus ensuring an instant kill of any soft target.
While these ground targets are subjected to weather conditions, the interception of ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ones (ICBM) are even made all-weather since the missiles would reach the higher altitudes above the layers of clouds and even rise into space.
The use of composite material such as carbon fibers in modern rocket casings renders ballistic missiles specially vulnerable to the Starlink strikes.
In a sense, Trump is about to finally complete the 1980's SDI initiative of President Reagan known as Star Wars, breaking the Mutual Destruction Doctrine (MAD) imposed by the Russians and that had prevailed since the Cold War era, making the deterrence of the Russian nuclear arsenal totally irrelevant in the 21th century, as well as the still in the making of the Iranians.
5.1.3.1.2. U.S. Internet of Military Things (IoMT) warfare
Tesla Electric Automotive Industries is simply completing the U.S. military's triad of Aerial UAVs, Underwater UUVs, and Naval Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with the 4th ground platform counterparts. This means armies of robotic infantry once HALO (high altitude – low opening, often called a HALO jump) paradropped in remote enemy territory insertion point will not be constrained to advance by walking on their two or four legs (i.e. the logistic robotic mules), but will be able to rush at great speed on board TESLA self-driving electric wheeled combat vehicles, paradropped along the robotic infantry units. This is paramount as refueling will not be available, and a continuous electric recharging of the batteries in real time via the orbital Starlink satellite array will ensure weeks of field operation.
Self-driving infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) will carry the robots, while accompanying Self-driving self-propelled artillery systems (SPA), Self-driving self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG), Self-driving Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Guided Missile System (SPATGM), Self-driving Tank Destroyer (SPTD) will provide additional firepower needed to defeat any enemy opposition when proceeding toward the designated target.
More fire support such as bunker busters will naturally be available with swarms of accompanying stealth UAVs evolving up to the Near-Space altitude, and all connected and controlled through Internet of Military Things (IoMT) satlinks.
Finally, self-driving robotic wheeled lasers are now available to these U.S. expeditionary forces.
Indeed, the capacity to recharge in real-time via the Starlink Orbital Satellite Array make field lasers possible for the first time in history!
Real-time recharging of batteries
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▲ 20. Monsters of Man (2020): Videomancy of future robotic armies of the U.S. military. January 2021.
Boston Dynamics robot dance party for New Year
17,541,992 views•Dec 29, 2020
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Future robotic armies of the U.S. military are now made possible, with the game-changing classified information that few among the public are aware of:
20 Jan 2015
The most significant changes are to the robot’s power supply and pump. Atlas will now carry an onboard 3.7-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, with the potential for one hour of “mixed mission” operation that includes walking, standing, use of tools, and other movements. This will drive a new variable-pressure pump that allows for more efficient operation.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/atlas-drc-robot-is-75-percent-new-completely-unplugged
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This official information is pivotal, as the autonomy is the factor that makes the field operation of a fully robotic platoon of very limited use in the field:
March 22, 2018
Boston Dynamics used a lot of off-the-shelf components to put this hydraulic robot together, which was a 2-m tall robot that was self-contained and weighed nearly 200kg.
This newer Atlas model is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs 80 kg. It has an increased strength density to near human levels, is completely power autonomous (running between 30-60 minutes, depending on what it is doing) and has 28 degrees of freedom.
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Again, power plant limiting the use to 60 minutes, as claimed.
But the reality is that civilian products such as Boston Dynamics' ATLAS are far behind the military classified ones!
Indeed, the best batteries are known and used only by the U.S. army, this pushes the autonomy limits over several hours if not days.
Still, this would not suffice in a real military campaign including the infiltration of the platoon, combat operations and exfiltration that would span over several days or weeks.
And here again the U.S.
Starlink Orbital Weapon System as the missing link, that enables the deployment of fully robotic armies in the field for lengthy military campaign.
The constellation of satellites provides such a coverage that it is possible to recharge the batteries of every single combatant robotic units in
real-time as if they where simply plugged to the main electricity grid.
Solar rays are simply converted to electricity by the solar panels of each of the 42'000 orbital Starlink satellites. The electricity is then converted into microwave waveband beams then steered and focused by the phased array antennas on each robots' charging pods.
This ensures a continuous supply of electricity. Only deep underground operations would stop them from receiving real-time recharging, but the batteries would allow hours of autonomy. The inclusion of dedicated "medic" robotic unit that carries extra pack of batteries and spare parts for such situation would also come in handy.
Finally real-time continuous recharging of batteries are not limited to ground platforms, wheeled or bipedal robotic vehicles, but Aerial robotic vehicle can also be powered for extended missions.
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▲ 21. OUTSIDE THE WIRE 2021: videomancy of U.S. wheeled self-driving vehicle and robotic armies.
5.1.3.1.3. U.S. Counter-insurgency warfare
If
listening a hundred words are not worth a look, then it is even more true that watching a thousand image frames are not worth a good computer simulation game.
For this purpose, here a sneak peek at a future Modification (MOD) based on the counter-insurgency simulator video game 2019
Rebel Inc: Escalation from
Ndemic Creations, the same developer of the famous 2016 pandemic simulator called
Plague Inc: Evolved.
The MOD will not be be made available before the alpha version of the game is released, with modding tools and dedicated upload sections on steam. This means at least after several more updates and DLCs from the current unpolished beta version.
“百闻不如一见,百见不如一玩”。
Listening a hundred words are not worth a look, A hundred looks are not worth a simulation game.
- Neo-Chinese proverb
Base Stations and Starlink MOD V1.0 (6 JUNE 2020)
Ideas and Feedback:
To the Ndemic Creations game developer, after several run with the game REBEL INC: ESCALATION, an Afghanistan pacification simulator (read counter-insurgency) quite unique in its kind, it was with great regret to see that the modelization totally overlooked the cellphone 3G/4G base stations' obvious eavesdropping function.
This MOD proposes to fix it, bringing the pacification of war-torn regions to a new higher stage. In a nutshell, a real game ender. Literally.
Starlink COVID-19 MOD V1.0a (9th JUNE 2020)
Small update, fusioning this 2019 counter-insurgency simulator
Rebel Inc: Escalation with the previous 2016 pandemic simulator
Plague Inc: Evolved, both from the same developer
Ndemic Creations.
Adding COVID-19 as a powerful game ender in modern 21th century counter-insurgency warfare.
Infrastructure Discussions:
Telecoms 1
Description: Establish infrastructure to provide 3g networks and basic internet services.
Effect: Significantly increases Support Level. Becomes significantly more effective as completed in more zones.
Military effect: Provides 33% eavesdropping capacity in urban area. Insurgency activity -25% in urban area.
Telecoms 2 (Prerequisite: Telecoms 1)
Description: Expand upon telecommunication infrastructure to provide reliable internet access and 4g coverage.
Effect: Significantly increases Support Level. Becomes significantly more effective as complete in more zones.
Military effect: Provides 66% eavesdropping capacity in urban area. Insurgency activity -50% in urban area.
Telecoms 3 (Prerequisite: Telecoms 2)
Description: Expand upon telecommunication infrastructure to provide reliable internet access and 5g coverage.
Effect: Significantly increases Support Level. Becomes significantly more effective as complete in more zones.
Military effect: Provides 100% eavesdropping capacity in urban area. Insurgency activity -100% in urban area.
Starlink 1 (Prerequisite: Telecoms 3)
Description: Add 12'000 Starlink satellites. Expand upon telecommunication infrastructure to provide reliable internet access and 5g coverage in remote area.
Effect: Significantly increases Support Level. Becomes significantly more effective as complete in more orbital shells.
Military effect: Provides 50% eavesdropping capacity in rural area. Insurgency activity -50% in rural area.
Starlink 2 (Prerequisite: Starlink 1)
Description: Add 15'000 Starlink satellites. Expand upon telecommunication infrastructure to provide reliable internet access and 5g coverage in remote area.
Effect: Significantly increases Support Level. Becomes significantly more effective as complete in more orbital shells.
Military effect: Provides 100% eavesdropping capacity in rural area, 50% eavesdropping capacity in remote area (mountains, deserts). Insurgency activity -100% in rural area, -50% in remote area.
Starlink 3 (Prerequisite: Starlink 2)
Description: Add 15'000 Starlink satellites. Expand upon telecommunication infrastructure to provide reliable internet access and 5g coverage in remote area.
Effect: Significantly increases Support Level. Becomes significantly more effective as complete in more orbital shells.
Military effect: Provides 100% eavesdropping capacity in remote area (mountains, deserts), add cumulative 50% eavesdropping capacity in dense forests. Insurgency activity -100% in remote area, add cumulative -50% in dense forests.
COVID-19 I (Prerequisite: Starlink 1)
Description: Unleashes a powerful pandemic outbreak. The best cover for increasing state control on private communications and restricting individual freedom of movements.
Effect: Nationwide lockdown, temporary effect can only last up to 6 months. Significantly decreases economic income. Significantly decreases Support Level.
Military effect: Provides 100% eavesdropping capacity in urban area, 50% eavesdropping capacity in rural area, 25% eavesdropping capacity in remote area (mountains, deserts). Insurgency activity -100% in urban area, -75% in rural area, -50% in remote area (mountains, deserts).
COVID-19 II (Prerequisite: COVID-19 I)
Description: Post-pandemic measures. The best cover for cementing the increased monolithic state control on private communications and movements.
Effect: Mandatory tracing apps for all cellphones. Mandatory individual QR code for entering any building, facility and highway. Significantly increases Support Level. Effect last for ever.
Military effect: Provides 100% eavesdropping capacity in urban area, 100% eavesdropping capacity in rural area, 100% eavesdropping capacity in remote area (mountains, deserts), add cumulative 50% eavesdropping capacity in dense forests. Insurgency activity -100% in urban area, -100% in rural area, -100% in remote area (mountains, deserts), add cumulative -50% in dense forests.
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▲ 22. Civilian initiatives. With new Telecoms 3, Starlink 1, Starlink, Starlink 3, COVID-19 I and COVID-19 II.
5.1.3.1.4. U.S. Pyrohurricane WMD
Used to destroy entire nations, as first devised by the Empire of Japan back in 1944.
Initially meant to burn in one single bombing run over the the U.S. continent, starting from Canada and heading southward, with the uses of the FUGOs stratospheric airships' directed energy rays, all forests, fields, wooden structures, warehouses, and industrial zones with anything flammable.
The ability to ignite everything that is flammable within a nation and all in under a few minutes, would cause the separate fires to finally merge and form a gigantic pyrohurricane.
The fire-triggered thunderstorms technically known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or “pyroCbs” would shoot black smoke and carbon high into the lower stratosphere, spewing noxious gases to the surviving inhabitants, killing civilian, military and all the livestock alike.
As an extension, though only a theoretical option, Starlink provide the U.S. military with a new form of Samson Option, superseding the defunct and obsolete nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) of the Cold War era, with this time no risk of ballistic missile retaliatory strike from the adversary, at the only exception of China, the only other superpower with its own Star Wars deployed in space by 2030.
The ability of the U.S. military to treat all continents simultaneously would cause a game end. Humankind could be basically wiped out.
Not only for all adversaries (Russia, Iran, Cuba, Syria, etc) but also destroy most of the U.S. population with the ensuing certain anthropogenic doomsday winter, that would freeze all crops, pollinators, livestocks, rivers, seas and unsheltered humans.
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▲ 23. Geostorm (2017): videomancy of the Starlink WMD mode.
5.1.4. China
Under the U.S. unveiled threats, in response, China would have no other option but to place its own fleet of DEW into space.
Wang Ganchang is the founder of Chinese laser fusion technology. In 1964 the Shanghai Optical Machinery Institute (上海光机所) developed a high-power 10 MW output laser. As an advocate of nuclear energy, he made with four nuclear experts in October 1978 the proposition to develop China's nuclear power.
In March 3rd, 1986, Wang Ganchang, Wang Dayan, Yang Jiachi and Chen Fangyun first proposed in a letter (《关于跟踪世界战略性高科技发展的建议》) to the Chinese government to launch researches covering lasers, microwaves, and electromagnetic pulse weapons. The plan would be adopted in November of that year under the code name Project 863 (“863计划”).
China has produced several examples of road-mobile laser weapons.
The
Silent Hunter 30-100kW vehicle-based laser weapon system has a maximum range of 4km. Its laser beam can cut through a 5mm steel sheet from 1km away, or five layers of 2mm steel sheets from 800m away, according to its developer China Poly Technologies. It was first unveiled at the South African Air Show in 2016.
For Space to Ground missions, the ranges and powers will need to be uprated several fold.
The
Gaofen-3 SAR satellite's solar pannels, made of triple-junction Gallium-Arsenide cells delivers a peak power of
15 kW. That is far below the several 100 kW required. The use of a nuclear powerplant might though not be necessary if powerful battery banks are used.
Chinese companies such as Shenzhen's BYD are already world leaders in producing batteries with higher discharge rates needed for accelerations in electric bus and with
one charge lasting almost 300kms or a full day’s operation.
China has also stated that it will develop and launch
the Xuntian (巡天) Space Telescope with a two-meter-diameter main mirror, co-orbiting with the country's first space station, and dock with it for refueling as well as maintenance and exchange, around 2020.
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▲ 24. China's Xuntian (巡天) Space Telescope with a two-meter-diameter primary mirror.
China has produced the
world largest aspheric mirror for primarily space military applications: "such a [space platform] can be used to observe low earth orbit satellites of other countries and to [identify, track and target their] missile launches."
The 4.03-meter diameter mirror with a mass of 1.6 tonnes is made of silicon carbide (SiC) by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics.
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▲ 25. The high-precision silicon carbide aspheric mirror with a diameter of 4.03 meters developed by the Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the largest single-crystal silicon carbide mirror in the world. 2018-08-21
According to some source, China's Gaofen-11 surveillance satellite's telescope has a 1.8 meter diameter aperture primary mirror. The same technology for coating the telescope primary mirror with protected aluminium layer could be used for
2.4 meter diameter aperture mirrors.
The research and development on
Adaptive Optics (AO) in China began in 1979. In 1980, the first laboratory on AO in China was established in the Institute of Optics and Electronics (IOE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
In May 2016, the Institute of Optronics Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science has tested an
Adaptive Optics key technology for a 1.8 meter diameter aperture telescope. In closed-loop, the resolution has reached 1.7 times the diffraction limit.
Therefore, this major breakthrough has been awarded the
first prize of the National Invention Prize For National Defence 2017. This Adaptive Optics has then been tested onboard the Chang'e 5-T1 lunar probe, allowing to achieve a lunar ground resolution of 0.97 meter.
By 2020, China's
CZ-504 space launcher will have a payload capability of 25 tons in LEO.
China has already mastered rendez-vous and space docking with its Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 program.
Several launches would be needed for assembling a DEW complex with a total mass of under 100 tons.
By 2030, the
CZ-9 SLV would allow payload of 140 tons in LEO.
China has demonstrated its ability to deploy complex array of military satellites, such as the
YAOGAN triplets, and the BEIDOU global navigation satellite system (GNSS).
China has no dedicated Space Force, contradicting Japanese RUMINT. But this will be the case once a fleet of space DEWs starts to be launched into orbit.
Thus the
pole position for China in initiating the space
breakaway.
5.1.4.1. China's Orbital Solar-powered Laser/Maser
The first dual-use civilian-military solar-powered Megawatt-level space-based orbital laser/maser platform project is officially launched, and its mass of 200 tons will require the use of the most powerful CZ-9 launcher:
China to build space-based solar power station by 2035
December 02, 2019
XIAMEN, Dec. 2 -- China plans to accomplish a 200-tonne megawatt-level space-based solar power station by 2035, according to the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
The space-based solar power station would capture the sun's energy that never makes it to the planet, said Wang Li, a CAST research fellow with the program, when attending the sixth China-Russia Engineering Forum held last week in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province.
The energy is converted to microwaves or lasers and then beamed wirelessly back to the Earth's surface for human consumption, Wang said.
"We hope to strengthen international cooperation and make scientific and technological breakthroughs so that humankind can achieve the dream of limitless clean energy at an early date," Wang said.
Compared with traditional fossil energy, which has been increasingly exhausted and is responsible for severe environmental issues, space-based solar power is more efficient and sustainable, providing a reliable power supply solution for satellites and disaster-hit areas or isolated areas on the Earth, Wang said.
The concept of collecting solar power in space was popularized by science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941. In 1968, Peter Glaser, an American aerospace engineer, wrote a formal proposal for a solar-based system in space.
China has proposed various sunlight collecting solutions and made a number of major breakthroughs in wireless energy transmission since the country listed space-based solar power as a key research program in 2008.
However, ambition has long been a challenge for current technology because it involves the launch and installation of numerous solar panel modules and the efficient wireless transmission of mega energy.
With an investment of 200 million yuan (28.4 million U.S. dollars), China is building a testing base in Bishan, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, for the research of high-power wireless energy transmission and its impact on the environment.
Researches in this field will spur the country's space science and innovation in emerging industries like commercial space transportations, Wang said.
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This project will allow China to achieve to some extend a deterrence against the U.S. Starlink threat.
The number of such platform being limited from a single one to a few at best, will of course limit the coverage, but powerful single continuous megawatt strike could be conducted.
5.1.4.2. China's 107'000 Starlinks
To frustrate the U.S. from not letting China lead the 21th century, as rightfully deserved, China has responded to this threat with a space race like never before in human history.
A space race for total victory.
The starting move was initiated by the U.S., as a Trojan Horse. It is the Starlink Program, a new name for the 1980s' Star Wars or Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program.
In short, the U.S. has planned to place no less than 42'000 Starlink satellites into space by 2027.
And these are the weapons that can jam and destroy anything below with their beams of microwave, provide the Star Wars Global Missile Interceptor System capability, ensure the U.S. armies in the field with God's Eye view capability intel, and that enables the age of the Internet of Military Things (IoMT) warfare, in commanding armies of self-driving wheeled combat vehicles, bipedal and quadrupedal robots, while remotely recharging in real-time their batteries in the field.
As a countermeasure, China
COMMSAT (
九天微星) has announced its next move by fielding before 2029 more than 107'000 satellites.
Factories are being built to churn satellites like aircrafts!
Thus totally outgunning the U.S. at its own game.
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▲ 26. China COMMSAT to place 107'000 satellites into space before 2029.
5.1.4.3. China's Fleet of Reusable VTVL Launchers
To deploy 107'000 civilian-military dual-use platforms in LEO by 2029 would require continuous launches, twice a week, over a decade, and thereafter for the upkeep of the constellation.
Thus the development of totally new reusable VTVL Heavy space launchers.
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▲ 27. Chinese rapidly expanding space launchers.
5.1.4.4. China's Quantum Computer
Obviously, to collect all the Petabytes harvested 24/7/365 by the array of 42'000 Starlink satellites, from all the cellphone base stations on Earth, and decipher then analyse, massive processing power is needed.
Thus the Quantum Supremacy.
This is the prerequisite for the God-Eye's view capability.
Indeed, in a little less than a year later, after the U.S.' Google's quantum processor
Sycamore, comprising 54 qubits, claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy on 23th October 2019:
Sycamore is the name of Google's quantum processor, comprising 54 qubits.
In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a Nature paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy. To estimate the time that would be taken by a classical supercomputer, Google ran portions of the quantum circuit simulation on the Summit, the most powerful classical computer in the world. Later, IBM made a counter-argument, claiming that the task would only take 2.5 days on a classical system like Summit.
The company says that its quantum computer is the first to perform a calculation that would be practically impossible for a classical machine.
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China's in turn, claims quantum leap with machine declared
a million times greater than Google’s Sycamore on 5th September 2020!
Physicist Pan Jianwei says his team achieved quantum supremacy but ‘further verification’ is necessary.
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And this is not an overkill when processing more than 107'000 satellites' data in real time.
Thus again outgunning the U.S. is this
Infowar.
5.1.4.5. China's Internet of Military Things (IoMT) warfare
Currently, several institutes in China such as th
Institute of Automation of Beijing and the Zhejiang University are indigenously developing wheeled, quadrupedal and bipedal military platforms.
The aim is to complete the Chinese military's triad of Aerial UAVs, Underwater UUVs, and Naval Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) with the 4th ground platform counterparts. This means armies of robotic infantry once HALO (high altitude – low opening, often called a HALO jump) paradropped in remote enemy territory insertion point will not be constrained to advance by walking on their two or four legs (i.e. the logistic robotic mules), but will be able to rush at great speed on board self-driving electric wheeled combat vehicles, paradropped along the robotic infantry units. This is paramount as refueling will not be available, and a continuous electric recharging of the batteries in real time via the orbital Chinese Starlink satellite array will ensure weeks of field operation.
Self-driving infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) will carry the robots, while accompanying Self-driving self-propelled artillery systems (SPA), Self-driving self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG), Self-driving Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Guided Missile System (SPATGM), Self-driving Tank Destroyer (SPTD) will provide additional firepower needed to defeat any enemy opposition when proceeding toward the designated target.
More fire support such as bunker busters will naturally be available with swarms of accompanying stealth UAVs evolving up to the Near-Space altitude, and all connected and controlled through Internet of Military Things (IoMT) satlinks.
Finally, self-driving robotic wheeled lasers are now available to these PLA forces.
Indeed, the capacity to recharge in real-time via the Chinese Starlink Orbital Satellite Array make field lasers possible for the first time in history!
Real-time recharging of batteries
On 29th January 2021, global technology leader Xiaomi introduced a brand new form of charging,
Mi Air Charge Technology[1]. Revolutionizing the current wireless charging methods, Mi Air Charge Technology enables the PLA to remotely charge electronic military platforms without any cables or wireless charging stands. Thus pioneering a true wireless charging era in the military.
And here again the Chinese
Starlink Orbital Weapon System will be the game changing key technology, that enables the deployment of fully robotic armies in the field for lengthy military campaign.
The constellation of satellites provides such a coverage that it is possible to recharge the batteries of every single combatant robotic units in
real-time as if they where simply plugged to the main electricity grid.
Solar rays are simply converted to electricity by the solar panels of each of the 107'000 orbital Chinese Starlink satellites. The electricity is then converted into microwave waveband beams then steered and focused by the phased array antennas on each robots' charging pods.
This ensures a continuous supply of electricity. Only deep underground operations would stop them from receiving real-time recharging, but the batteries would allow hours of autonomy. The inclusion of dedicated "medic" robotic unit that carries extra pack of batteries and spare parts for such situation would also come in handy.
Finally real-time continuous recharging of batteries are not limited to ground platforms, wheeled or bipedal robotic vehicles, but Aerial robotic vehicle can also be powered for extended missions.
5.2. The Four Minor Space Powers
Behind the lead
peloton, the
gruppetto is a group of minor players who have to cooperate and assist one another in order to stay in the global arms space race and avoid the elimination.
Currently, none of these nations have mastered all the prerequisite key technologies needed to deploy space to ground DEWs.
5.2.1. India, Israel
As India is always hell-bent in trying to catch up with some giant northern neighbour, be it with the ASAT weapon, the manned program, the lunar lander, and the space laboratory, it is highly expected that Bharat will also try very hard to deploy its own directed energy space to ground platforms.
As Israel is already at the forefront among the nations that have developed anti-ballistic missile weapons, space to ground DEW would naturally be of great strategic importance as the next layer in countering hostile incoming ballistic missiles.
Israel's space launch vehicle Shavit can not place payload above a few hundreds of kg into LEO. Therefore, it outsources all its space launches abroad, especially in India.
India lacks advanced technological capabilities and Israel is one of its providers. In turn, what Israel lacks in developing capabilities, it simply siphons them overseas, be it in the E.U., Russia and mostly at the source, in the U.S.
The recent Indian ASAT test exemplifies this Israeli outsourcing. Originated in the U.S. and tested in India.
The Kinetic Kill Vehicle's onboard advanced terminal guidance system, featured a strap-down (non-gimballed) imaging infrared (
IIR) seeker and an inertial navigation system that used ring-laser gyroscopes (RLGs).
A seeker presenting similarities with the Israeli's Arrow-3 kill vehicle one (gimballed).
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▲ 28. Indian ASAT KKV's Infrared Imaging Radar (IIR) seeker.
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▲ 29. Israeli's Arrow-3 kill vehicle IIR seeker. Exhibition mockup.
India's DEW
India's LASTEC has also developed a 10kW Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) and is working on developing a 30-100 kW vehicle-mounted COIL system. It is also developing a “gas dynamic high power laser-based DEW” called ‘Aditya’ project.
Two DRDO laboratories — Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS) and Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC) — are currently working on developing the source for generating a fiber laser.
At present, the source of the fiber laser, which is the “heart of the system”, is imported from Germany.
High power microwave (HPM) device from DRDO have delivered output power of 4 MW at a frequency of 3.26GHz.
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▲ 30. HPM device from DRDO have delivered output power of 4 MW.
India's Space Launchers
India's
GSLV Mk III space launcher can place 8 tons payload into 600 km LEO, 4 tons into GTO. The payload fairing is 5 meters in diameter.
The lack of payload capability can only be circumvented by developing rendez-vous and docking technologies. Several launches would be needed for assembling a DEW complex with a total mass of under 100 tons.
New heavy space launchers are therefore currently under development including CZ-9-class SLV (with payload above 100 tons in LEO), and reusable VTVL launchers.
India's Space Station
The planned
Indian Space Station is envisaged to weigh 20 tonnes and serve as a facility where astronauts can stay for 15-20 days, and it would be placed in an orbit 400 km above earth. The time frame for launch is 5-7 years after Gaganyaan (AUG 2022).
It would be similar to the Salyut Space Laboratory with two modules.
To support the
Indian Space Station program, docking technologies will be develop with an orbital platform (PS4-OP), made of the last stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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▲ 31. The 20 tons Indian Space Station, made of two modules.
Further iterations of the space station program have even increased the number of module to 4 then 6, as of 2020.
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▲ 32. 3d scale model representation of a 4-modules Indian Space Station (ISS). 2020
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▲ 33. PPT representation of a 6-modules Indian Space Station (ISS). 2020
India's Satellite Arrays
India has only demonstrated its ability to deploy regional array of 8 military satellites, with the
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), but might expand it to a global constellation of 24 satellites (GINS), with the
help of Israel.
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