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Yes, they do. But I'm taking about the problems of using railguns as a space launch solution, not an ASAT system. Of course you can harden payloads to work with those accelerations, but it is a lot easier to do for a kill vehicle that only has to work for a couple of minutes than a satellite that needs to work for weeks or months. DARPA wants to use ALASA to launch a constellation of 1-m imaging small sats. Hardening those for a railgun launch would be pretty tough.

[QUOTE="TomS, post: 241800, member: 1484"] Yes, they do. But I'm taking about the problems of using railguns as a space launch solution, not an ASAT system. Of course you can harden payloads to work with those accelerations, but it is a lot easier to do for a kill vehicle that only has to work for a couple of minutes than a satellite that needs to work for weeks or months. DARPA wants to use ALASA to launch a constellation of 1-m imaging small sats. Hardening those for a railgun launch would be pretty tough. [/QUOTE]

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