Can a laser be shot from space?

You really over complicated this question and answer. Right now, we can certainly make lasers which are powerful enough to be weapons. What happens if you mount that on a space ship and shoot it into space? The answer is simple: it will diffuse to invisibility as it goes out into space.

Do lasers have infinite range?

Your laser-beam can come to space. There he will find not so much objects to get lost and will stay for much longer time. It will travel infinite – as long you kept on your laser pointer on earth.

How far does laser go in space?

Each laser has the power of about four laser pointers and must be detected by a spacecraft an average of 137 miles (220 kilometers) away. Even the ultra- precise assembly of the satellites isn’t enough to guarantee the laser transmitted from each spacecraft will be aligned well enough to hit the other spacecraft.

Do lasers end?

Light from a laser does not stop in mid-air, but continues going. A pilot at the other end can clearly see the light from even a relatively low powered 5 mW green laser, at a distance well over 2 miles.

Can a laser hit the moon?

The typical red laser pointer is about 5 milliwatts, and a good one has a tight enough beam to actually hit the Moon—though it’d be spread out over a large fraction of the surface when it got there. The atmosphere would distort the beam a bit, and absorb some of it, but most of the light would make it.

Can a laser destroy Earth?

Dr. Stuart Penn, senior research fellow at South Bank University in London, suggests another way a laser might destroy a planet: “The laser could vaporize a narrow tunnel to the core of the planet. Then heat the core so it expands and melts.

Does a laser bend with gravity?

Really big curvature of light by gravity occurs near the strange objects called black holes, which were also predicted by General Relativity. So yes, the light ray from your laser will technically be bent by the earth’s gravity.

Can the ISS see lasers?

Yes, If the laser is pointed directly at the ISS. In an experiment amateur astronomers in Texas pointed two searchlights and a one-watt blue laser at the Space Station.

Can a laser stop an asteroid?

Asteroid laser ablation is a proposed method for deflecting asteroids, involving the use of a laser array to alter the orbit of an asteroid. Laser ablation works by heating up a substance enough to allow gaseous material to eject, either through sublimation (solid to gas) or vaporization (liquid to gas).