Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
The most promising - and most likey to work, is the Space Based Kenetic Weapons System, know as 'Brilliant Pebbles' - the KeWe.
It deploys from a space based pod, or cluster of pods, uses satellite tracking at the boost phase to determine which group of pods will be closest to the intruder when the kill is needed to be made, selects, launches, and fires the propulsion system to drive the Kenetic Weapon into the intruder at several thousands of miles an hour at impact, tearing it apart. The impact/contact has to occur before the deployment of 'Chaffe' - the space debris equivalent of 'traffic cones' that are warhead mass simulators, that will be present by the dozens in the area of warhead deployment for the purpose of confusing radar and detection devices.
It takes sophisticated 'Black-Body' thermal analyzers to see the difference between a true warhead and a dummy that gives the same image to the viewers.
