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Defending Space: US Anti-Satellite Warfare and Space Weaponry (Fortress)
by: Clayton Chun

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Brand: Osprey Publishing
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.3432
EAN: 9781846030390
ISBN: 1846030390
Label: Osprey Publishing
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Studio: Osprey Publishing
Sales Rank: 240485
MPN: FOR053

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The United States has been developing space for many years, and satellites provide the US military with an unparalleled advantage over adversaries. Constellations of both military and civilian satellites provide protection and support for military operations, deliver ballistic missile early warning, supply reliable, secure and jam-proof communications, gather audio-visual amd electronic intelligence, predict weather patterns, guide navigation, target weapons, and perform a host of other missions. These systems are critical to America's status as a world power, and potential threats to them are carefully assessed by US military planners. In January 2001, a commission led by Donald Rumsfeld warned of the growing threat to US space assets from so-called "rogue states," who (with varying degrees of difficulty) might build and deploy "space mines", launch ballistic anti-satellite weapons, deliberately increase orbital debris or detonate high-altitude nuclear explosions. The defensive options currently available to the US include improving satellite defenses (making them more robust and maneuverable, and improving threat detection) and the controversial placing of weapons in space (in "sentinel satellites") to protect military and civilian hardware. Since the 1950s research and development has been applied to space weaponry with mixed results, and not only by the USA. This book explains the origin and development of systems used to defend the United States from past, present and future threats, and to support military operations.

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- Disappointed
I must say that I was disappointed in this book. There is very little new information, and while the art work is pleasing to look at, it really doesn't do much to detail equipment and installations. No single space warfare system is really highlighted. The author makes several brief references to the X-20 "Dynasoar", but these aren't substantive and the Air Force's equally interesting Manned Orbiting Laboratory program is completely ignored.

More distressing, in spite of his credentials, there is some reason to question the author's basic knowledge of the physics of space flight. At one point the text seems to suggest that a satellite could be positioned over Korea, almost as though it could hover there. That section could simply be poorly phrased, but elsewhere the text clearly ... Read More

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- Disappointed in Houston
I was eagerly anticipating the arrival of this title because I had hoped that it would throw some further light on advanced technologies that the US has been deploying in space for at least the last 20 years or more. Alas, not much substance in this volume beyond what, I admit, is a generally good summation of the orthodox technologies that are regularly trotted out for public consumption. Chemical fuel rockets, old school electronics, bicycle technology, etc. But the real US space program goes far, far beyond that...and there is a wealth of credible material on that subject available in published books and on the internet. In my opinion, this volume could have so easily been much more substantive without compromising its credibility one bit.

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