Orbital wars.

Not long ago I read a news story where the Pentagon detected five Chinese spacecraft that were carrying out a simulated combat operation in space, let's say Star Wars style, military maneuvers in space, the United States also wants to do something similar with a mission called Victus Haze but has not yet put it into practice, at the moment they are in this story, designing ships, designing tactics, and spying on the enemy.

One of the fundamental problems in knocking out an enemy satellite is that you cannot destroy it or it would not be convenient to destroy it because destroying it has already destroyed it, until now that I remember the United States, Russia, China and India, which was the last one, used missiles from the ground to destroy satellites in space and the problem with that is that the only thing you get is a pile of space junk orbiting in a chaotic way that can end up damaging other satellites, including yours, and causing what they have called Kessler syndrome, therefore, It's not a good tactic.

What is the best? Capturing the enemy satellite and throwing it to Earth, that is, deorbiting it, that would be the most basic tactic, in fact, some operations or some ideas for collecting space debris that are currently being designed could also be applied for military purposes to capture enemy satellites and throw them to Earth, something could even be done better, for example Space

If you capture a disused satellite in that way, you can also capture an active enemy satellite and bring it to the ground, that would be the best, because not only do you neutralize the enemy satellite, but you have the enemy's technology, that's how things stand, the European Space Agency is also developing ships capable of capturing other ships, but they would not have the ability to bring it to Earth, the Starship would.

The ship developed by Europe, for example, would capture the satellite and could deorbit it, that is, throw it into the Earth's atmosphere so that it disintegrates, but a Starship can return to Earth with the enemy satellite inside, it is an enormous advantage.

This space war goes back a long way, the United States was the first 20 or 30 years ago to destroy a satellite in space, then Russia or the Soviet Union, I don't know if it was at the time of the Soviet Union or as an independent Russia, then China and the last was India to do it, so they are all there and India is also developing a spacecraft similar to the American one, so the space battles are crazy and how this could extend to the moon and Mars.

Furthermore, add to that that the Chinese were also working on providing the satellites with self-defense systems, I don't know exactly what the self-defense system would be, perhaps it would be being able to shoot something at the satellite that is approaching but of course if you shoot something and the satellite that is approaching to capture you is destroyed, what happens is having a cloud of fragments coming in your direction, it is something complex.

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