{"id":88731,"date":"2019-03-17T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/pentagon-wants-to-test-a-space-based-weapon-in-2023"},"modified":"2019-03-17T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T16:02:22","slug":"pentagon-wants-to-test-a-space-based-weapon-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/pentagon-wants-to-test-a-space-based-weapon-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Wants to Test A Space-Based Weapon in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-wants-to-test-a-space-based-weapon-in-2023.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense officials have asked for $304 million to fund research into space-based lasers, particle beams, and other new forms of missile defense next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defense officials want to test a neutral <\/strong>particle-beam in orbit in fiscal 2023 as part of a ramped-up effort to explore various types of space-based weaponry. They\u2019ve asked for $304 million in the 2020 budget to develop such beams, more powerful lasers, and other new tech for next-generation missile defense. Such weapons are needed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/03\/pentagons-new-arms-research-chief-eyes-space-based-ray-guns\/146863\/\">they say<\/a>, to counter new missiles from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. But just figuring out what might work is a difficult technical challenge.<\/p>\n<p>So the Pentagon is undertaking two studies. The first is a $15 million exploration of whether satellites outfitted with lasers might be able to disable enemy missiles coming off the launch pad. Defense officials<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2019\/01\/pentagon-study-putting-anti-missile-laser-weapons-space\/154239\/\"> have said previously<\/a> that these lasers would need to be in the megawatt class. They expect to finish the study within six months.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2019\/03\/pentagon-wants-test-space-based-weapon-2023\/155581\/\">https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2019\/03\/pentagon-wants...23\/155581\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense officials have asked for $304 million to fund research into space-based lasers, particle beams, and other new forms of missile defense next year. Defense officials want to test a neutral particle-beam in orbit in fiscal 2023 as part of a ramped-up effort to explore various types of space-based weaponry. They\u2019ve asked for $304 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}