What is important to acknowledge is that the Clementine probes main
mission for BMDO was to prove that these sort of sensors could lock onto
and guide a craft to near earth asteroids, which are millions of miles
away. If they can do this, then finding a body reflecting solar flux in
cislunar space is a piece of cake...
>
> > Also, decent signal processing will be able to pick out small, weak,
> > differential IR sources against the backdrop of a spinning earth, since its
> > behavior would distinguish itself from an earth based IR sources.
>
> *If* they know roughly where it is.
>
> > (unqualified) theory is that when you have a flux overload, the
> > superconductor would start to heat up. At a certain temperature point, it
> > would resume an entirely ceramic nature, which would then be unaffected by
> > EMP.
>
> Yeah, I don't know what would happen either. However, all that energy
> would have to go somewhere, and it would probably end up in heat. Even if
> that didn't happen, having gigavolts running unexpectedly through the
> control hardware would be annoying, to say the least.
What is the situation with superconductors and EMPs? I thought that they
did not conduct magnetic fields at all, just current? Also, you would
think that the forces that an induction gun are built to would be in the
range synonimous with nuke EMP type flux levels. I'll have to study my
Pulse Power handbook I got from BMDO.
>
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