In reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s message of Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:12:52 +0000: Hi Charlie, [snip] >Moving satellites > >Perhaps there could be a positioning service satellite >that would fire short pulses of neutral relativistic >hydrogen beams to push away space junk or move >accommodating design non junk satellites accompanied by >ablation without fragmentation. The positioning service >satellite may be very massive (to provide steady aim) >moderate inclination (to get the beam out of line with >uninvolved objects or to change the inclination of the >target (the inclination of the target can be kept with >multiple firings or in line shots ) slightly above >synchronous orbit (to stay out of the way of >communications signals and drift around the belt).
Why do you want beam weapons in orbit? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
