Chinese hidden mines against satellites leave no debris behind

Anti-satellite technologies are divided into those aimed at their own obsolete or broken ones

devices or those belonging to the enemy.to be ground-based systems for jamming navigation, communication and optical surveillance devices.Also orbital platforms for capturing satellites. 

China has the latter device, which is used in repair and restoration work in space or to collect space debris.But the same system can, if desired, destroy a certain satellite. 

Journalists learned about what happened in Chinatesting an anti-satellite weapon, it is placed in the satellite engine nozzle and secured there. It looks like a mine, with 3.5 kg of explosives inside. It is precisely the same instrument suppression system that can place explosives in a satellite. 

The mine can be in the satellite as long as you like andeven leave it on command without causing harm to the device. At the right moment, the mine can be activated: it will explode inside the device, but no changes will be noticeable externally. From the outside it will look as if the satellite’s engine simply failed. 

Thanks to such a device, you can mine any objects in space, and no one will guess about it.

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