Space-based Missile Defense

Physics > Physics and Society [Submitted on 24 Jun 2026] Space-based Missile Defense David Wright This paper reviews the technical issues underlying space-based boost-phase missile defense and examines the current technology available for space-based interceptors and the characteristics of the missiles such a system would face. It then analyzes a particular space-based missile defense system that has been proposed to intercept in boost, ascent, and midcourse phases to illustrate the details of such an analysis and the constraints imposed on such systems by the physics of operating in space. Comments: 28 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Science and Global Security Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2606.25756 [physics.soc-ph]   (or arXiv:2606.25756v1 [physics.soc-ph] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.25756 Focus to learn more Submission history From: David Wright [view email] [v1] Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:27:44 UTC (732 KB) Access Paper: view license Current browse context: physics.soc-ph < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cs cs.CR physics References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)