美国“军事星”2型卫星艺术画像

    中国已经使用高能激光干扰美国卫星，依照一位美国陆军空间-战专家所说。试验据传闻是在先前但是现在已确认激光攻击至少部分有效。

    用于综合导弹防卫的联合职能战斗司令部指挥官军士长大卫女士，声称位于俄马哈的战略空间和防御委员会在10月12日攻击之后被美国卫星操作员发现-很有可能国家侦察办公室成像卫星的的秘密使用者-观察那卫星有时候在中国上空运行时偶尔失效。

    CSM女士说“这里已经有时候当我们惊奇卫星经过中国上空突然失效，”。在太平洋南部夸贾林环礁上的雷根试验基地的传感器指派任务是追踪卫星和观察任何非正常现象。CSM淑女说“我们感觉到对抗太空飞行器的光束发射和可以确认光子流，”。

    依照CSM所称，夸贾林环礁数据确认中国看来在他们的激光干扰系统上具有“一些程度的信心”。

    附原文供对照参考：

US claims that China has used lasers to attack satellites

China has used high-energy lasers to interfere with US satellites, according to a US Army space-warfare specialist. Tests have been reported previously but it is now confirmed that the laser attacks were at least partially effective.

Command Sergeant Major David Lady of the Joint Functional Combat Command for Integrated Missile Defense, said at the Strategic Space & Defense conference in Omaha on 12 October that the attacks were detected after US satellite operators - most likely users of the National Reconnaissance Office's secret imaging satellites - observed that the satellites occasionally failed to perform over China.

"There had been times when we wondered at the sudden decline in effectiveness as the satellites passed over China," CSM Lady said. Sensors at the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein atoll in the South Pacific were tasked with tracking the satellites and observing any unusual phenomena. "We sensed the projection of beams against the spacecraft and could identify the streams of photons," CSM Lady said.

The Kwajalein data confirmed that the Chinese appeared to have "some level of confidence" in their laser countermeasures system, according to CSM Lady.

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