NationStates Jolt Archive

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Presedent/CEO of the BSP (Bohovian Space Agency) steps up to a podium near BSA HQ. Alongside him Sgt. Wagstaff of the Bohovian Forces. Standing before them a crowd of 250,000 citizens and press circle the area, under heavy security

"Hello and welcome to the BSP HQ, today is a historic moment for our great nation. Today is a day you will tell your grand-children about, and they will tell there grand-children about, this will be a memorable event in The Dominion of Bohovia's history. Whats this "memorable day" you ask yourselves? This day will be memorable because we have built a satellite, not just any kind of satellite, this one is capable of shooting down nuclear missile threats! When launched it will fly about 25 000 meters above sea-level, at that altidute you entering the inner ozone layer. We will have 5-7 BGM-109 Tomahawk long range and all weather missiles attached to the outside of the satellite. This satellite (on default) will move automaticly, it would move ONLY over Bohovian airspace. In the event the radar detects a nuclear missile, the commander will be able to switch the function to manual and will be able to steer the satellite, when the commander locks his target he will give it the command to launch. The missile will launch, which will intercept the nuclear weapon, either destroying it compleatly or altering its course. The price tag on this is about 3.7 billion dollars. The launch is set for Sunday, March 29th at 3:00pm. May we prosper, me the world finaly see peace. God bless Bohovia!"

A loud applaud broke out as the press interviewed the CEO

OOC: This reeks of critical research failure.

This day will be memorable because we have built a satellite, not just any kind of satellite, this one is capable of shooting down nuclear missile threats! When launched it will fly about 25 000 meters above sea-level, at that altidute you entering the inner ozone layer.

25,000 meters is 25 kilometers would place you in the stratosphere. This is far, far, far to low too maintain any kind of orbit, as the Earth's gravity is still way to strong. Low-Earth Orbit starts at 160 kilometers(160,000 meters), but more realistically starts at 200 kilometers(200,000 meters), and goes until 2,000 kilometers(2,000,000 meters) up.

We will have 5-7 BGM-109 Tomahawk long range and all weather missiles attached to the outside of the satellite.

Why are you using a low-level land-attack/anti-ship cruise missile in a anti-ballistic mode?

This satellite (on default) will move automaticly, it would move ONLY over Bohovian airspace.

Sattelites, quite simply, do not work that way. They don't 'fly around' like an aircraft or helicopter does. They orbit, meaning that they are, in one way or another, always moving in a certain direction unless there is an intervention by an outside force (ie: a collision or the use of its thrusters). If you want the sattelite to remain stationary above your nation using orbital mechanics, you would have to use a geostationary orbit... which would require placing the sattelite 35,786 kilometers (35,786,000 meters). As a referrence, the most you'll ever see a nuclear warhead at is 200 kilometers above the Earth atmosphere, and that's only for a specific type of ICBM-delivery mechanism (the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System).

In the event the radar detects a nuclear missile, the commander will be able to switch the function to manual and will be able to steer the satellite, when the commander locks his target he will give it the command to launch.

In order to do this in terms of orbital mechanics, he would have to use small rocket thrusters that could run out of fuel in less then a dozen seconds. If the sattelite is not in a proper, stable orbit by the time the thruster fuel is used up, it will both be useless and doomed to fall into Earths atmosphere where it would either vaporize on re-entry or, if it is large enough, smash into the ground.

The missile will launch, which will intercept the nuclear weapon, either destroying it compleatly or altering its course.

Assuming you are going to be using the BGM-109, this sentence should read: "The missile will launch and completely fail to even try to intercept the nuclear warhead given that it was never built for the mission nor can it be feasibly modified for the mission."

If you are not going to go with the BGM-109, then there are three possibilities: you hit and destroy the nuclear warhead, you completely miss the nuclear warhead, or you alter the warheads trajectory by a absolutely inconsequential amount.

The price tag on this is about 3.7 billion dollars.

Hmm, given the above, this line makes it sound like you bought it from a conman.

May we prosper, me the world finaly see peace. God bless Bohovia!" A loud applaud broke out as the press interviewed the CEO

IC: The State news crew from the Totalitarian State of Red Tide stood rooted to the floor, dumbfounded by the sheer idiocity of what was just proclaimed. They were even more dumbfounded by the loud applause from Bohovian citizens. These people obviously lacked any kind of knowledge about basic High School physics. The cameraman (who was the undercover Intelligence Commissariat Officer on the team) quietly made a note in his head to tell his fellow Commissars when he got back to Red Tide about this... Bohovia was obviously a laughingstock.

Non-Exploding Cupcake also has a satellite that can shoot down nuclear missiles.

Except we haven't figured out how to get it up into space yet, and its primary armament is a slingshot rather than a cruise missile. Nonetheless, we are confident that if any nuclear missiles were to attack Non-Exploding Cupcake, we would be able to shoot them down without problems.