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Over the years, the gang at the Center for Defense Information has done a good a job as anyone at this thankless task. They've just released their survey of the Pentagon's 2009 budget, highlighting research that could lead to arms in space. By the absolute most conservative estimate, we're talking $520 million dollars in next year's budget. The real number is likely several multiples of that.
The projects mostly involve ways to disable potentially hostile satellites; many have other uses, as well. They include a giant laser, to help spot targets in orbit (and to improve space imaging, in the meantime); micro satellites, that could disable another country's orbiters (or repair our own); a series of jammers, to block enemy satellite signals; and missile interceptors, based in space.
Originally posted by chromatico
reply to post by xSMOKING_GUNx
They know that the Chinese destroyed one of their failing satellites with a missile in a reckless way. This was reported in the mainstream media.