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Russians reportedly building a satellite-blinding laser – an expert explains the technology

  • Written by Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Russians reportedly building a satellite-blinding laser – an expert explains the technologyA powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites.MuthuKutty/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical sensors of other nations’ spy satellites by flooding them...

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