Let me explain something real quick - you don't "shoot down" something in orbit. Orbit, by definition, means that you are in free-fall. You don't need to keep the "engines on" once you are in orbit - it will just keep going. If something was destroyed in orbit - especially by laser, which would merely cause the target to burn - it will continue on in whatever orbit it had previously, but scattering debris that would potentially destroy thousands of other orbital assets.

Now, if you were able to decelerate an orbital asset by, say, attaching a thruster or hitting it with enough kinetic force to slow its velocity? It would drop from the sky as we might be seeing here, and avoid collateral damage. We're not looking at the work of directed energy weapons here. What we are probably seeing is an asset that can attach a small thruster tactically. Lasers are for raising temperature, little else.

Let me explain something real quick - you don't "shoot down" something in orbit. Orbit, by definition, means that you are in free-fall. You don't need to keep the "engines on" once you are in orbit - it will just keep going. Of something was destroyed in orbit - especially by laser, which would merely cause the target to burn - it will continue on in whatever orbit it had previously, but scattering debris that would potentially destroy thousands of other orbital assets.

Now, if you were able to decelerate an orbital asset by, say, attaching a thruster or hitting it with enough kinetic force to slow its velocity? It would drop from the sky as we might be seeing here, and avoid collateral damage. We're not looking at the work of directed energy weapons here. What we are probably seeing is an asset that can attach a small thruster tactically. Lasers are for raising temperature, little else.

Let me explain something real quick - you don't "shoot down" something in orbit. Orbit, by definition, means that you are in free-fall. You don't need to keep the "engines on" once you are in orbit - it will just keep going. Of something was destroyed in orbit - especially by laser, which would merely cause the target to burn - it will continue on in whatever orbit it had previously, but scattering debris that would potentially destroy thousands of other orbital assets.

Now, if you were able to decelerate an orbital asset by, say, attaching a thruster or hitting it with enough kinetick force to slow its velocity? It would drop from the sky as we might be seeing here, and avoid collateral damage. We're not looking at the work of directed energy weapons here. What we are probably seeing is an asset that can attach a small thruster tactically. Lasers are for raising temperature, little else.