Are the Chinese testing the EMP weapons?

"A notional illustration of China's Shenlong space plane above Earth. (Image credit: Erik Simonsen/Getty Images) (Space.com)

Chinese Shelong shuttle released a mystery object into space again. 

Chinese small miniature shuttle Shelong released a mysterious object into space. The purpose of those tests is unknown. The Shelong space plane is a highly classified system. There are many unknown things about that small spacecraft. But the main role of the miniature shuttles is to assist military projects. The Shelong shuttle might test its ability to handle things like small nuclear explosives. Or some kind of spaceborne kill vehicles. The killer satellite itself might be very small. It could be a space mine. 

It can be like the aircraft’s rocket cassette with a maneuvering rocket system. The system. It can use kinetic energy kill devices. Or it can use the systems that push satellites off their trajectories. Or maybe those systems can involve a small neutron bomb whose mission is to create an electromagnetic pulse. The EMP pulse form. When gamma-rays impact the atmosphere. That thing. It can destroy satellites. And if the impulse is powerful enough. The EMP pulse is the thing. That destroys the satellite. But leaves its shell in one piece. 

Those kinds of systems can shut down electronics. In 1962, the U.S military conducted a high-altitude nuclear test called “Starfish Prime”. That high-altitude test shows how powerful the EMP pulse can be. The Starfish Prime. It was 1,4 mt. High altitude nuclear test. The electronics at that time were less vulnerable than they are today. Still today, people remember that Starfish Prime closed the entire Honolulu. It also destroyed satellites. And one of the reasons why the results were so small in space. 

That there were only a few satellites orbiting the Earth. Starfish Prime raises a question. What would happen? If the 1,4 mt thermonuclear explosive detonates above a modern city?  The EMP and radioactive belt that the weapon left could destroy even hundreds of satellites. We know that the Soviets developed EMP weapons during the Cold War. Those weapons can be detonated suddenly outside the atmosphere. And it can cause large-scale damage to the satellite fleet. And the EMP pulse destroys both its own and enemy satellites. The radioactive plasma belt also denies communication between satellites and ground stations. 

"Imagery of China's Shenlong space plane caught on camera in 2024 by Felix Schöfbänker in Upper Austria. (Image credit: Felix Schöfbänker)"(Space.com)

The synthetic gamma-ray burst can make it possible. To create the EMP pulse. 

The beta-radiation from nuclear reactors. They can be used to make the synthetic gamma rays. The system can use cathode radiation. Or electrons that it shoots between the cathode and the anode. The laser beam that travels into that particle flow. It can make them send X or gamma rays. Then that gamma-ray. It will be conducted to the air tank. There, it turns into the EMP pulse. The Shenlong shuttle can test this kind of technology. The high-power gamma rays can be made in the device that Senlong releases. The cathode system. It can be in the mystery device. And then the laser system. It can be in Shenlong. 

In the previous tests, Shenlong released six mystery capsules. And that means that. The idea might be to test how this system works. It is to test how far the Shenlong must go. That the possible EMP pulse will not damage its systems. The gamma-EMP-based space mine can be an interesting tool. Gamma-rays can be made by using antimatter annihilation. The system must pull beta-electrons through the thin gold plate. That turns electrons into anti-electrons, or positrons.  The magnetic system traps those antimatter particles near the air tank. And then. It puts those electrons and positrons. Annihilate. That gamma-ray burst. It can form an EMP pulse in the atmosphere or an air tank. 

The problem with EMP weapons is. How to limit its power and protect its own satellites? 

There is a possibility. The Shenlong tests the systems. That mission. It is to give a limited-scale EMP. The limited or weak EMP means the system. That blocks satellites from the limited areas. The problem is: How to create gamma rays with a limited energy level? And control those gamma rays. And that can be. The reason. For why. The satellite Kosmos 954 carried a nuclear reactor. There is a possibility that the RORSAT(Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite) satellites. If the system can create a free electron cloud. And then shoot a laser beam at those electrons. It can create synthetic gamma-rays. 

Use nuclear reactors to create gamma or beta rays. Beta rays are electrons that a nuclear reactor sends. If the system launches laser beams into those high-energy electrons. They could send the gamma-rays. The gamma-impulse that hits the atmosphere. Can form an EMP pulse. In the same way, if those gamma-rays can be shot into the air tank. Or a tank that is filled with plasma. That radiation. It can send EMP impulses. That destroys other satellites. 

https://orbitaltoday.com/2023/12/27/chinas-shenlong-releases-six-mysterious-objects/

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/chinas-space-plane-appears-to-have-released-a-mystery-object-in-orbit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime