I think this falls under tech support.
I hate a certain satellite TV company and I to shoot down/fuck up their satellite so they go out of business. How would it be best to make it non-operational if I can shoot it out of the sky.
I was thinking about a high powered laser to blind the receivers but are their better ideas?
>>1
make a space shuttle crash into it. it'll be a lot easier than trying to shoot down or fuck up the satellite yourself.
A commercial laser, pointed at an artificial satellite through the atmosphere, is capable of blinding CCDs operating in the laser's range until the laser is turned off. I know of no lasers you can purchase, not even commercial ones, that would be powerful enough to burn out that hypothetical CCD from Earth's surface.
But this is a TV relay satellite. You'll need to construct a satellite dish the size of a small car and use the equivalent of the power your entire house consumes to jam it. And even then, the authorities will trace your jamming signal by the leaked power and jail you on terrorism charges.
well... it might be possible to use this kinda thing... if you got access to one of those ^_^
or you could try to somehow hijack the satelite and "correct" its course
That's a chemical laser. OP is going to poison himself trying to get it to work.
>>4
W@ARGHAHAHAHAHA!!! (common terrorist like laugh)
go all akira style on it
He's only a terrorist if he attacks satellite that transmits fox news.
Anything else makes him a Patriot.
wait, isn't Chinese able to do this with missiles, without lasers???
yes. OP should ask some Chinese or maybe North Korea and tell them about his plan. I think they could manage it somehow.
>>14
No don't! Osama and his gang will follows then....
>>15
no, he's too busy using his mind control machine to get college kids to vote for him.
>>16
WTF, mind control machine??? Made in Iran??? (scares...)
>>6
The satellite is most likely running vxworks or some other flavour of real-time operating system. Step one would be to research this. In step 2 you need to research what kind of transfer protocol they are using to administrate the satellite. In step 3 you need to monitor the communication between the control station and the satellite. Hopefully they are using a weak encryption scheme which you can get they key to after a limited amount of time. Something similar to cracking wep. Then you push your own firmware or a command to the satellite and make it crash.
You are however very unlikely to succeed with this unless you work in the space industry programming satellites. Chances are you need the encryption key even if you have the knowledge to take control of a satellite.
I can feel a powerful evil aura is emitting form this thread, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!
The US tested a chemical laser on an Air Force satellite in 1997, successfully "disabling" it. Dunno if the lazor just fried its spy camera or what this "disabling" meant, but high-powered lasers have come a long way in the last ten years.
Still, you can't exactly buy those from a store. Might be possible to acquire all the stuff yourself, put it together and produce the chemicals involved with some serious skill, but this would probably leave quite a paper trail for the FBI (or your local equivalent) to track. So, Anonymous, just how much do you hate the company?
that all doesn't matter, if they don't capture you in the act they cannot prove a thing, unless you live in America that is, there proof can be forged as long as the enemy can be called a terrorist.
Did someone said motherfuckingly powerful laser?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13512
I know it's not enough but through.
>>22
only 500mW?
http://mfgcn.com/_wsn/page2.html
A lil' off topic question here, does the color of the lasers represents much of their power?
Just the wavelength and coolness factor (green is cooler)
You're all forgetting.
He needs the railgun from REX and a nuclear warhead.
REX? wut's that?
>>28
I think he's referring to the Metal Gears in the Metal Gear Solid series, some of which use a railgun to deliver nuclear arms.
Hmm...Metal Gear Rex... I prefer using EVA's long range sniper rifle instead...or Wing Zero's Twin Buster Rifle
I don't think the positron rifle from Eva counts as a "sniper rifle" somehow. It's not like the Evangelions can hide in a bush and pick off Angel officers.
All of those things are massive overkill anyway. You hardly need a nuke or the entire electrical output of Japan to take down a sattelite. A small rocket and a handful of ball bearings would do the job.
ball bearings??
Yeah, ball bearings. Actually hitting a satellite with anything is pretty tricky, but aiming to merely place a field of junk like bearings or popcorn or icecubes in its orbit as your rocket passes by is significantly easier to pull off. The satellite’s own orbital velocity provides all the killing power. This is probably one of the cheapest and lowest-tech methods.
>>34
Funny, I've been called that three times in as many days.
ahem!....to the main topic please
So, my satellite (a lockheed martin A2100) was working fine until the day before yesterday. Now it's pretty much just sitting there and not doing shit. Actually, I can't even tell if it's still sitting where it's supposed to be since it's in space and stuff. I think I've lost the manual. Anybody have any ideas? I already tried unplugging it and plugging it back in.
Did you check for high speed ball bearing damage?
they plug up in the satellite orbits sometimes, just have to plug the holes with silicone and reboot a couple of times.
Keep us updated on any progress!
Okay, I'll go check it for holes tomorrow morning. But first: I don't have any silicone handy. Would hot glue work okay? I think I have enough extension cords.
depends on what kind of satellite you have, if its one of those cheap European models you should be fine... but the American models tend to bitch about when you use hot glue
Like I said, it's a lockheed martin. So I guess I'm off to the store at lunch time for some caulk, then I'll go check it out. I'll keep you crazy kids posted.
>>37 Low orbit ion canon? that should do the trick
>>43 spelcheak? that shud do the tirck.
Tell a fed that it's under terrorist control, and provide proof.
I play emulated games every now and again on the computer when I get bored, or in the downtime of an online match with console games. I have an Xbox 360 USB controller, which can also be used as a gamepad for the computer.
It controls fine, the only problem is that my computer is convinced that it is a headset/controller combo. Therefor, the audio goes to the controller, and since the controller has no audio output, I hear no audio.
It sounds like a small problem, but it's a lot more annoying than it sounds.
Trouble shooting has only led me to check my Direct X files.
Any help, please?
I missed the New Thread box and apparently hit this one.
I'll say I've had a few and just leave this here...
Use a multi-stage rocket w/ a shrapnel warhead.
Most likely it will disable it. The primary problem would be
having an accurate enough guidance system.
Might I recommend using a rock and slingshot? Those things can get some air. If all else fails, call cust. support and ask them for a cost effective way to take out their sat.
the fbi is (possibly) watching you right now.
>>45
Alternatively, tell China it's spying on them.
If you're lucky, we'll all get another belt of space debris.
Or tell North Korea it is our new laser equipped attack satellite.
They'll use their new nuke to blow it up, and you will have it destroyed. Everybody wins!(except for the sat company)
>>52
because a nuke won't disrupt any other of that 10000+ satellites up there.
not to mention the EMP that would be generated...
I didn't see anything about keeping the rest of the satellites from being harmed.
1 MW laser, mounted on a satellite.
>>53
there is already enough emp and other shit from the sun and stuff, so they actually should be protected enough from it and possibly won't get really harmed.
Just for the record, which company is it?