Yay!
Kessler Syndrome! Kessler Syndrome! Kessler Syndrome!
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Yay!
Kessler Syndrome! Kessler Syndrome! Kessler Syndrome!
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Yay! but the Ukraine war effort Boo! but less space junk! Yay! but all those just... normal Starlink customers who need internet Boo! but fuck Musk! Yay!
I'm gonna need a drink.
How about a frozen yogurt? I call it frogurt.
That's good!
The frogurt is also capitalist.
That's bad!
Blowing up satellites turns it from 1 bit of space junk into thousands...
I think by pure count, the amount of space junk would go up. The pieces would just be a lot smaller.
That is inevitable. The sky will be filled with the trash of struck down satellites and nothing can leave earth for a while. Before starlink, China had already demonstrated that they can shoot down satellites. No investigation needed.
Even the worst Kessler syndrome scenarios don't stop new satellites from being launched through the debris-containing altitudes to reach clear orbits.
filled with the trash of struck down satellites
It's already full of trash of operating satellites. Starlink is very very low orbit. When pieces go in random directions (assuming significant enough vertically), they either go back to the atmosphere (air will stop it, duh) or slightly higher up to be in an orbit that's original height on one side and slightly higher on another.
We already have the technology if memory serves. Since civilians are the last to know, there have probably been satellite killers in orbit for years.
It's fun for Musk to get fucked, but I believe Ukraine uses Starlink to defend itself
It's not even secret, there have been highly publicized tests of ground- and air-launched interceptor missiles, and a fair few tests observed by amateur astronomers where military satellites rendezvoused and closed to observation/weapons range with dummy targets. It's very hard to hide anything that happens in orbit.
Space wars?
According to the authors of the concept, if the resilience of a satellite constellation is ensured by its sheer number, then the response should be a weapon cheap enough to destroy satellites faster than SpaceX can launch new ones.
Smells of the good old forgeting that the target wont just sit by
At least they arent putting everything in one basket this time with physical destruction being the last option
Whats a satellite constallation destroyer but a anti ICBM weapon under a diffrent name?
I wonder how much taxpayer money will be spent trying to protect musk's satellites.
Honestly, they are so cheap compared to anything that could kill them. The best passive defense strategy is to just launch more.
Obviously there are lots of active defense measures that would be on the table. But that would likely be the chosen passive defense strategy.
Ooh I'm actually all for this! Destroy ALL the satellites!
The problem is they won't clean anything up.
they already have anti-satellite missiles, they just need to build alot of them. or have jamming satellites of thier own,.
And so the star wars begins.
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