1st Edition
Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future?
By Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Copyright 1978
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of space – around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones. The satellites were for military communications, weather prediction, navigation, photographic and electronic reconnaissance, targeting, early warning, and satellites capable of destroying enemy satellites. This book analyses the capabilities of military... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Some Basic Concepts of Orbital Characteristics 3. Reconnaissance Satellites 4. Communications Satellites 5. Navigation Satellites 6. Meteorological Satellites 7. Geodetic Satellites 8. Interceptor/Destructor Satellites and FOBSs 9. Conclusions
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