You're imposing constraints where there are none, and declaring physical law as an insurmountable barrier, because you are sourcing all materials involved as terrestrial in origin, and insisting on reusability.
Magnetic induction would also apply opposing forces to the launch satellite, but that doesn't matter if the launch satellite is just as disposable as the slugs that destroy the target.
Inert gases are too heavy, only if the weapons program tries to collect them on the ground and launch them into orbit.
I'm obviously making things up, because this is a system open to invention, given that it doesn't actually exist yet. This concept is less practical, if you operate within existing constraints, using only rocket propellant to boost objects into orbit, and then subsequently de-orbit them.
Game changers emerge, when new ways of operating in space appear. Even if this is "less practical" right now, after the introduction of adjacent technologies, as an existing concept it could suddenly become practical. For example, with the introduction of a space elevator, boosting such a weapons system into orbit is less costly. Then, more of its components become readily disposal at practical values.
I'm not required to operate within existing economic constraints, to consider ideas that are not actually limited by physical laws.
Magnetic induction would also apply opposing forces to the launch satellite, but that doesn't matter if the launch satellite is just as disposable as the slugs that destroy the target.
Inert gases are too heavy, only if the weapons program tries to collect them on the ground and launch them into orbit.
I'm obviously making things up, because this is a system open to invention, given that it doesn't actually exist yet. This concept is less practical, if you operate within existing constraints, using only rocket propellant to boost objects into orbit, and then subsequently de-orbit them.
Game changers emerge, when new ways of operating in space appear. Even if this is "less practical" right now, after the introduction of adjacent technologies, as an existing concept it could suddenly become practical. For example, with the introduction of a space elevator, boosting such a weapons system into orbit is less costly. Then, more of its components become readily disposal at practical values.
I'm not required to operate within existing economic constraints, to consider ideas that are not actually limited by physical laws.