Autonomous repair robots launched into space

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triacontahedron @ Mar 9th 2007 12:43PM

"How very Star Wars of us."

Exactly! How do you thing army is going to use them? You dont need lasers, particle weapon or a huge cannon to destroy an enemy satellite , it is enough to slow one down a little so that it would burn in the atmosphere after a few revolutions.

Why do you think these repair bots are autonomous? The only reason is that you can deploy say 100's of them in space in case of approaching war etc. and then trigger them when needed. The best part is that they dont fall under treaty that prohibits deploying weapons in outer space. I bet the "refueling" model is small enough to be launched by a trident rocket so that army can use existing infrustructure to deploy these satellites.

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