Missile attacks, lasers, kamikaze satellites, and a robotic arm. There are several technologies that can be used to destroy the satellites of hostile nations.
The world’s great powers are becoming increasingly interested in weapons that can be used against other nations’ satellites, according to a“The existence of counterspace capabilities is not new, but the circumstances surrounding them are. Today there are increased incentives for development, and potential use, of offensive counterspace capabilities,” the Secure World Foundation concludes in the report.
It is a relatively well-known method that the United States, India, and China have also used in the past. Satellites can also be equipped with jammers or other equipment that can be used to interfere with enemy satellites. For example, a chemical spray that can destroy an optical camera on a satellite.In Russia, there is an extremely powerful laser that, according to the Russian armed forces, should be able to destroy satellites from Earth. Whether this is actually true is unclear, but the laser will at least be able to dazzle the optical sensor of a satellite and thus disable it.
But even though space operations are more complicated, they also provide an advantage, which today is only available to the great powers.