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111110001011 t1_iufnkog wrote

Reply to comment by phiggy in Remembering That Time the Soviet Union Shot a Top-Secret Space Cannon While in Orbit. by BalticsFox

The gun wasn't intended to shoot at the ground.

It was to prevent other spacecraft from getting close and spying on them.

They put up a secret project. You fly your satellite nearby to take pictures. They shoot your satellite.

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phiggy t1_iufy3ld wrote

thanks...that makes more sense. Any idea what firing it did to the orbital parameters of the satellite?

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111110001011 t1_iufy8n3 wrote

They fired the engines to counteract it.

That being said, they never did it again, so it probably wasn't effective. Switched to missiles.

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