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Re:UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space by enkid on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:06PM (#23933777)
What if you used an object in another orbit to fire a projectile? Wouldn't that make the differences in energies pretty significant?
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Re:UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space by knodi123 on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:55AM (#23935871)
I did suggest "have your gun-sat in an opposite-direction orbit to the target". Yes, that would dramatically increase the kinetic energy.
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