December 12, 201300:20:16

Space Rocket History #42 - Satellite Killer - Polyot-1

The Space Age had barely begun when Soviet engineers started planning ways to destroy enemy satellites. Some Western analysts have speculated that a design for an anti-satellite weapon system was started at Korolev’s OKB-1 bureau as early as 1956…

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Credit: © Dietrich Haeseler

Credit: © Dietrich Haeseler

By Dave

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