Satellites do a lot of things—they help people navigate from one place to another, they deliver television programming, they search for new stars and exo-planets and they enable the U.S. nuclear deterrence strategy. But until recently, one thing they haven’t done—or needed to do—is defend themselves.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-armoring-satellites-survive.html