EMP Effects and Considerations

[masterswimmer]

Does EMP affect solar panels?
also radios if they are protected indoors?

LOL, naaah, the solar panels will be fine. It's just that everything that plugs into the batteries will be fried.

Sorry, just couldn't resist.

[Norm DeGuerre]

Does EMP affect solar panels?
also radios if they are protected indoors?

smoked ..!!

[WARFAB]

Speaking of the X37.....

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/05/17/space-now-warfighting-domain/

For decades the United States has enjoyed unimpeded freedom of action in space. This benign environment allowed us to operate satellites for intelligence collection, missile warning, weather monitoring, communications, and precision positioning, navigation, and timing in support of all military operations for all of the services, without thinking about how to protect these systems. That environment no longer exists. Space will be contested in any conflict…

Clearly, freedom to operate in space is not guaranteed. In fact, space is now a warfighting domain, similar to the more familiar air, land, and maritime domains our men and women are fighting in today. We must ensure the reliability of our current systems and we must modernize. Our modernization will focus on our ability to deter potential adversaries, and to fight in a contested, degraded, and operationally limited environment should deterrence fail.