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China won't put up with spy satellites: Operation 'put on dark glasses'

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Free Headline Alerts

East-Asia-Intel.com

A Chinese journal disclosed earlier this year how China plans to use technology and other means to prevent space satellites from conducting operations over Chinese territory.

The journal National Defense (Guofang) reported in its March 2008 edition that the Chinese method is dubbed “having satellites put on dark glasses.”

The article was written by Sun Lihua and Wang Shaowen.

With the increased use of space reconnaissance, “only by adopting multiple tactical means to ‘put on dark glasses’ on enemy reconnaissance satellites, can one better conceal its operational intention and achieve the combat results that are to the enemy's surprise,” the article states.

The report states that the Chinese should use multiple methods and techniques to thwart satellite reconnaissance.

“Tactical methods discussed include jamming such as with electromagnetic radio frequency energy, avoidance by tracking satellites, deception by changing detection signatures, ‘chameleon’ by using photochromic, electrochromic, temperature-induced, and humidity-induced chromic materials, and camouflage and concealment by eradicating or reducing the different features of spectrum reflection between the target and the background,” the report said.

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