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    An aircraft carrier in space? US Space Force wants ‘orbital carrier’ to easily deploy spacecraft in Earth orbit

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    1. PicnicBasketPirate on

      So a deployment platform to bypass the predictably of orbital spy satellites periods at the expense of a significantly larger up front cost of getting all that equipment to orbit?

    2. JaggedMetalOs on

      I must say I’m struggling to imagine the advantage of keeping satellites inside another vehicle instead of just letting them hang out in orbit themselves.

    3. EssentialSriracha on

      The cost of putting something like that up there in terms of a military asset is so much more expensive than the cheap missile it will take to destroy it. Right now that’s not a good plan with today’s technology.

    4. Introverted_kitty on

      The largest man made satellite is the ISS, which is around 700 tons.
      I don’t know how you are going to get an object into space that is bigger than that without enormous amounts of money. Even with advances in rockets (ie starship) you’d still need many, many launches.

      Also, you could just launch a satellite with kinetic kill vehicles instead.

    5. Taste_the__Rainbow on

      Okay so anything you release is either locked into a similar orbit as the carrier or spends more fuel adjusting orbit than it would just launching a new satellite? Bizarre plan tbh.

    6. Su-37_Terminator on

      yeah and i want free healthcare and a job that wont fire me for going on vacation

    7. verifiedboomer on

      Seems like a bad idea. A spacecraft carrier can only easily launch satellites into orbits that are coplanar with the carrier. It is very inefficient and slow doing anything else. A ground-based launcher can place a satellite into virtually any orbit within 12 hours. What am I missing?

    9. _azazel_keter_ on

      seems useless for now, unless they have some serious space manufacturing tech we’re not aware of

    10. Bo-Boetterson on

      Just remember top end military technology is always 20-40+ years in advance of public acknowledged technology… they already have these, that’s where trillions of dollars of pentagon dollars disappear and have done for a long time. Your reality is fake

    11. WaffleBlues on

      So we have to cut Medicaid, Medicare and social security.

      We had to cut the veteran suicide prevention hotline.

      OMB has proposed cutting head start.  The feds cut food subsidies for food pantries and charities.

      But we can afford this?  our priorities are so fucked.