ABSTRACT
The difficulty with kinetic energy when talking about intercepts in the boost phase, which of course is the area of major leverage for Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), is that it simply takes a fair amount of time to cover the enormous distances of space. The difficulty with kinetic energy when talking about intercepts in the boost phase, which of course is the area of major leverage for SDI, is that it simply takes a fair amount of time to cover the enormous distances of space. Since then there are other notable examples of kinetic energy surgical precision which have received a lot of publicity. The vehicle had an infrared sensor on board. The experiments at Maui demonstrated that in fact people can postulate very, very large apertures which are meters, perhaps even tens of meters in diameter, and use those effective apertures to transmit over the enormous distances of space.
