{"id":270965,"date":"2025-11-08T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:53:05","slug":"china-builds-advanced-satellite-power-system-for-particle-beam-and-other-space-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270965\/","title":{"rendered":"China builds advanced satellite power system for particle beam and other space weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Particle beams \u2013 streams of atoms or subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light \u2013 have been the holy grail of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3331538\/us-space-force-use-3-weapons-jam-chinese-satellites-remote-control?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space warfare<\/a>. The idea is simple: fire a tightly focused beam of high-energy particles at an enemy satellite or missile, damaging it through sheer kinetic and thermal energy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But turning this vision into reality has remained out of reach. One critical reason is power.<\/p>\n<p>To work, a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3315070\/chinese-scientists-build-laser-weapon-can-operate-without-cooling-sahara-desert?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">particle beam weapon<\/a> needs not just massive amounts of energy, but also extreme precision in how that energy is delivered. In a particle accelerator on board a satellite, electromagnetic fields must \u201cpush\u201d charged particles at precise moments as they race through different sections.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These energy pulses must maintain almost perfectly in sync, with errors no more than millionths or billionths of a second \u2013 microseconds and nanoseconds, respectively. Otherwise, the beam will lose focus, efficiency will drop and the weapon will fail.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This creates a fundamental engineering dilemma: high power and high precision usually do not go together. Systems that deliver megawatts of power tend to be slow to control and systems that are ultra-precise often cannot handle such huge energy bursts, meaning engineers have had to choose between raw power and fine control \u2013 never both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Particle beams \u2013 streams of atoms or subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light \u2013 have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[157597,64,63,512,56661,157602,157598,157601,157599,157600,115771,16201,157595,157596,128,8525,285,114295,5707,157603],"class_list":{"0":"post-270965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-advanced-small-satellite-technology","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-scientists","13":"tag-dc-dc-converter","14":"tag-dfh-satellite-co","15":"tag-electromagnetic-jamming-warfare-simulators","16":"tag-fpga-based-controller","17":"tag-laser-communication","18":"tag-lidar","19":"tag-ltd","20":"tag-particle-beam-systems","21":"tag-particle-beams","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-solar-panels","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-space-warfare","26":"tag-starlink","27":"tag-su-zhenhua"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}