• DocumentCode
    1157207
  • Title

    Third world radiation threats to satellites

  • Author

    Solin, John R.

  • Author_Institution
    Lockheed Martin, San Jose, CA
  • Volume
    42
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    10/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1437
  • Lastpage
    1445
  • Abstract
    The era of hardening military satellites against nuclear events, lasers, and high-power microwaves, appears to have come to an end. A case is made here for maintaining rudimentary nuclear, laser, and high-power microwave (HPM) hardening requirements in order to protect against developing third world threats. The third world nuclear threat is well known. Less appreciated is the fact that third world laser and microwave threats have changed radically in the past few years
  • Keywords
    artificial satellites; laser beam effects; military equipment; nuclear explosions; radiation hardening (electronics); high-power microwave hardening; microwave threats; military satellites; nuclear events; nuclear lasers; third world radiation threats; Electrostatic discharge; Laser transitions; Low earth orbit satellites; Masers; Military satellites; Photoelectricity; Production; Protection; Radiation hardening; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.2006.314583
  • Filename
    4107999