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China recently built a space-based power system prototype for a potential satellite-based particle beam weaponry, the South China Morning Post reported Saturday. The idea of particle beams is simple: ...

Using beam weapons to zap ballistic missiles has been a dream since Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative. Now the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is looking for technologies that will enable space-based ...

Scientists in China claim that they have finally cracked a decades-old dilemma that has long prevented the development of space-based particle beam weapons. Particle beams- streams of atoms or ...

Particle beams – streams of atoms or subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light – have been the holy grail of space warfare. The idea is simple: fire a tightly focused beam of ...

The key innovation of our propulsion concept is the unique coupling of a neutral particle beam with a laser beam, a scheme which nearly eliminates thermal expansion and diffraction during beam ...