SPY satellites could soon be equipped with artificial “eyelids” to prevent
them being blinded by enemy lasers.
Military satellites have extremely sensitive cameras to spy on the movements
of troops and vehicles on the ground. But a bright flash of powerful laser light
could damage the cameras’ optical sensors, so the military is keen to find ways
of protecting them.
“Basically, you don’t want to put a billion dollar satellite into orbit if
someone can put it out of action with a laser the next day,” says Gary McGuire
of electronics company MCNC in North Carolina. So he and his…
