{"id":62806,"date":"2019-03-19T22:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pentagon-looks-at-outfitting-satellites-with-lasers-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:17:21","slug":"pentagon-looks-at-outfitting-satellites-with-lasers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pentagon-looks-at-outfitting-satellites-with-lasers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Looks at Outfitting Satellites With Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Defense officials want to test a neutral&nbsp;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,&nbsp;they say, to counter new missiles from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. But just figuring out what might work is a difficult technical&nbsp;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&nbsp;have said previously&nbsp;that these lasers would need to be in the megawatt class. They expect to finish the study within six&nbsp;months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read More at Defense One &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense officials want to test a neutral&nbsp;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,&nbsp;they say, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}