Modern Technologies and Conflicts
4.10. 2017
Jakub Drmola
Space

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Brief history
●1942 - V2
●1957 - Sputnik 1
●1961 - Gagarin
●1966 - Luna 9
●1969 - Apollo 11
●1970 - Venera 7
●1981 - STS
●1997 - Pathfinder
●1998 - ISS
●2004 - Opportunity
●2014 - Rosetta




Militarization
-information
-espionage
-communication
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-defense
-SDI (1983)
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-offense
-WMD/kinetic/EM
-Outer Space Treaty (1967)
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-ASATs
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-advantages and disadvantages?

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1970s
Salyut

Impact
-space race was part of the Cold War
-for prestige and military application
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-spin-offs for civilian life and economy
-1983 - GPS for public use
-navigation, communication
-boost for industry
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-inspirational

1968
Apollo 8


1990
Voyager 1


Privatization
 1965 - IntelSat 1
 2001 – first tourist
 2008 - Falcon 1
 2012 – Dragon
 2017 – first reflight

 around 40% of currently active satellites

Orbital debris

 http://stuffin.space/

 - Kessler syndrome
◦chain reaction of collisions
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 - caused by:
◦launches
◦dead satellites
◦collisions
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 - it is getting worse…
 - how to clean it up?



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-66 million years ago, K-Pg extinction
-dinosaurs died out
-(and 75% of all life)
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-1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9
-comet hit Jupiter  >>
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-2013, Chelyabinsk
-over thousand injured
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-1908, Tunguska

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Chelyabinsk, 2013







Tunguska, 1908






Some comparisons
-Chicxulub 100 000 000 megatons TNT
-Shoemaker-Levy 9 (G) 6 000 000 megatons TNT
-Tsar nuclear bomb 50 megatons TNT
-Tunguska 10-30 megatons TNT
-Chelyabinsk 0.5 megaton TNT
-Little Boy (Hiroshima) 0.015 megaton TNT

Solution?

 - Or a new problem?

 - If we can deflect an asteroid, we can also inflect it = “Deflection Dilemma”
-Probability of getting hit by a massive asteroid in the near future is very low.
-Probability of someone misusing it is … ?

Space Industry
-asteroid mining
-water
-precious metals (platinum, paladium, rhodium)
-Planetary Resources Inc.
-http://www.planetaryresources.com/
-Deep Space Industries
-https://deepspaceindustries.com/
-H.R. 2262
-Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015
-Asteroid Redirect Mission
-canceled