Chinas kinder, gentler killer satellite
As they advocate for no weapons in space.
China Says Its New ASAT Missile Can Not Only ‘Melt Down’ Enemy Satellites But Also Capture Them In Orbit
A group of Chinese researchers has claimed they have successfully built and also tested an anti-satellite robotic device, which could place a small pack of explosives into the exhaust nozzle of a probe.
Instead of blowing up the satellite into a million pieces, this melt-cast explosive was capable of producing a “time-controlled, steady explosion”, Professor Sun Yunzhong and colleagues from the Hunan Defence Industry Polytechnic in Xiangtan wrote in a paper, which was published in the domestic journal called, Electronic Technology & Software Engineering, last month.
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