Many of the 10,000 Hezbollah missiles fired at Israel in 2006 are the Fadj-3 rockets fired at Americans in Iraq. The Iron Dome, EAPS-ID, and Stunner anti-missile batteries can shoot-down millions of these shorter-range (under 70-250 km) missiles starting in 2010, but their cueing radars detect a limited portion of their trajectories which reduces their desirable 30-second intercept windows. Since 2007, China shot-down a satellite, a commercial Iridium satellite was destroyed by an undetected Russian satellite, and North Korea and Iran tested maneuvering warheads in space. The recently launched TacSat-3 and NFIRE satellites have 50-cm or larger aperture cameras that can detect these shorter-range rockets and ASAT collision hazards from orbit, but this is not their primary mission. An ad-hoc network of CubeSat satellites with agilely developed 7.5-cm cameras can communicate with each other and TacSat-3 using patented PeerSat Inter-Satellite Links to adapt tasking between cheap 7.5-cm and expensive 50-cm cameras to coordinate dramatically faster cueing for short-range missile defense, space situational awareness (SSA), and ASAT collision defense. PeerSat Links also provide Emergency 911 (E911) communications and immediate warnings to other orbiting spacecraft, and in-flight re-targeting to DARPA NetFires missiles or Stunner interceptors using weapon data links to counter-strike.
Keywords: Missile-Warning, Space Situational Awareness (Ssa), Low-Cost Cubesat Satellite, Anti-Satellite (Asat) Hazard Detection, Anti-Ballistic Missile (Abm) Defense, Emergency 911 Com
