Russian ASAT development

Isos wrote:Mig 31D or S-500 ?


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JUST IN: U.S. Space Command issues statement that it is tracking a Russian anti-satellite missile test. Weapon could target satellites in low-earth orbit.

Some background on Russian and Chinese anti-space capabilities

Big_Gazza wrote:Not exactly an ASAT system but it is intended to defeat hostile birds...

Roscosmos engineers develop plan to BLIND foreign spy satellites flying over Russian territory

Engineers at the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos have developed a plan to block foreign orbital spy satellites from operating in the skies above Russian territory, in what could mark a new era of counterintelligence.
The engineers at the Russian Space Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Roscosmos, propose establishing a database of all known foreign orbital spy satellites to best configure an array of ground-based jamming devices.

Once this database is compiled, the agency could then decide the best location and composition for a proposed array of ground-based radio-electronic stations which suppress and prevent data transmission from optical, infrared and radar satellites.

This method reportedly only works when spy satellites are above foreign territory, and not within line-of-sight of their respective home nations. The non-invasive jamming would effectively render foreign spy satellites useless when flying above Russian territory.

A timeline for the establishment of both the database and the construction of the jamming arrays has yet to be revealed.

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Directed-energy ECM systems perhaps?  Direct a MASER beam at enemy sats during their overflight and scramble them while within LOS?  

This would presumably be a military system, so why would Roscosmos personnel be involved?

It's probably just crappy RT journos making a complete mess out of the story...

Russia is developing new weapon to destroy enemy satellites: report

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:45 P.M.) – The U.S. publication, National Interest, which specializes in political and military affairs, wrote an article saying that Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to eliminate hostile satellites or disrupt their work.

According to the article, Russian specialists are creating a complex equipped with very small satellites and a small propulsion engine, which will be used during its first stage. The complex also includes a MiG-31 interceptor aircraft.

Earlier, journalist Bart Hendricks published an analytical article in which he collected facts unrelated to each other – and included “some pictures, government contracts and information about the tests”, and from which he concluded that Russia is creating a special system called “Borovestnik”, whose mission is to destroy satellites.

Hendricks said that Borovestnik would be equipped with small predatory satellites. He alleged that he had already seen pictures of tests and experiments that took place in the city of Zhukovsky, on the outskirts of Moscow.

The journalist added that he had seen pictures of a MiG-31BM interceptor fighter, and it was carrying very large missiles that did not resemble air-to-air or air-to-surface missiles.

GarryB wrote:Regarding weapons that can hit satellites... that would be S-500 and of course who are you going to blame for its existance... it was the unilateral withdrawl by the US that made the S-500 possible... they had nothing like that planned or could be planned at the time.

Now they have road mobile A-235s and soon S-500s to shoot down US satellites.

Sujoy wrote:

GarryB wrote:Regarding weapons that can hit satellites... that would be S-500 and of course who are you going to blame for its existance... it was the unilateral withdrawl by the US that made the S-500 possible... they had nothing like that planned or could be planned at the time.

Now they have road mobile A-235s and soon S-500s to shoot down US satellites.

U.S now has sophisticated capabilities for jamming or spoofing space-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities. Russia is not at danger, but countries like India, Iran among others certainly are.

U.S PNT jammers have been possibly used in sophisticated, widespread spoofing of civil satellite signals across India. The increasing number of US and Chinese rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) capabilities, is a case in point. RPOs are simply capabilities to to maneuver satellites in orbit near one another. These can be done with hostile intent (thus a co-orbital ASAT)

kvs wrote:The stellar intellects in Washington for some reason expect that GPS will be operational during WWIII.   All of this satellite jamming is
BS to harass countries that are no threat of any sort to the USA.

kvs wrote:I think India has enough scientific and technological capacity to defeat this.

GarryB wrote:America sent astronauts to the moon and about 50 years later can even create their own decent rocket to take astronauts in to space...

"Product 293"

But the whole point is that under this name another development of our military-industrial complex was hidden, about which Putin did not speak for the time being. We are talking about a top secret "product 293", which became known after the information about preliminary tests of a prototype of an anti-satellite missile ("product 293") was leaked into the public domain in the period limited to June 2021. This followed from an agreement on the creation of a bonded filler for solid fuel engines, concluded between the engine manufacturer NPO Iskra and the filler creator (the name is classified). Details on "ed. 293 "is not much, of the interest only the indices of propulsion systems: 14D812, 14D813, 14S47. Prototypes of engines should be manufactured by June 2021.

What else is known about the product? According to the RAS report for 2015, the rocket complex uses a new generation solid propellant (SRT), and a contract for work on the selection of chlorine-free oxidants for gas-generating compositions is also posted on the State Procurement website. Probably, the CPT formulation includes GNIV (HNIW or CL-20).

This product is an integral part of a new Russian complex being developed as part of the Burevestnik R&D project. At the moment, the earliest information about this program found in open sources refers to 2008 - a state contract was signed for the implementation of the Burevestnik R&D project. As you can see, this "Petrel" appeared in parallel with the CRND (cruise missile of unlimited range) with the same name, but no one could have guessed that the people would call the CRND by the same name as the 14K168 air-launched anti-satellite missile system. Now we have two "Petrel", hence the confusion.

It is also known that the main task assigned to the developer (about which below) was “the creation of a system of anti-space defense (anti-space defense) based on the already existing scientific and technical groundwork and newly created land-based and air-based anti-missile defense systems for fire damage and functional suppression of low-orbit foreign military spacecraft ". At the exit, the Customer received the so-called. "Product 293", which is an air-launched solid-propellant rocket for space purposes. The developer is presumably JSC NPK KBM. As I have already said, the engines for a two-stage solid-propellant rocket with a solid-propellant rocket unit for additional detonation of an AES interceptor (artificial earth satellites) were commissioned to develop by NPO Iskra.

As an "already existing scientific and technical groundwork", the developer used the MiG-31 fighter-interceptors, well-known to our enemies, which we are already using as a carrier for another "toy" of Putin, called "Dagger". You see what it means to produce an aircraft ahead of time, this is the fastest and highest-altitude fighter-interceptor among the available in service with our VKS (and not ours too!).

Arrow wrote:Interestingly, the last such direct tests on satellites were carried out by the USSR in the 70s or 80s. It was an ASAT system called IS.

After the Pentagon noticed a “debris-generating event” in orbit, the State Department condemned what they said was a Russian test of an anti-satellite missile, calling it “dangerous and irresponsible behavior.”

“US Space Command is aware of a debris-generating event in outer space,” the Pentagon said on Monday, saying the US military was “actively working to characterize the debris field.”

State Department spokesman Ned Price accused Moscow of using a direct ascent missile to destroy an orbiting satellite, creating over 1,500 pieces of trackable space debris.

Mir wrote:The US seems to be very upset - or is it yet another excuse to pump up the Russiophobia?  

https://www.rt.com/usa/540356-satellite-debris-pentagon-state/

After the Pentagon noticed a “debris-generating event” in orbit, the State Department condemned what they said was a Russian test of an anti-satellite missile, calling it “dangerous and irresponsible behavior.”

“US Space Command is aware of a debris-generating event in outer space,” the Pentagon said on Monday, saying the US military was “actively working to characterize the debris field.”

State Department spokesman Ned Price accused Moscow of using a direct ascent missile to destroy an orbiting satellite, creating over 1,500 pieces of trackable space debris.

dino00 wrote:Probably just the final test of Nudol.
It was dumb and dangerous.