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Not to mention that being ahead or behind has nothing to do with whether someone could steal one of your satellites. Avoiding it is pretty easy: put a small bom
by mikeash 8y ago
Not to mention that being ahead or behind has nothing to do with whether someone could steal one of your satellites. Avoiding it is pretty easy: put a small bomb on your satellite, rigged to go off if it detects tampering. A couple of pounds would be plenty, spacecraft are fragile. I don't think anyone ever did this, since this wasn't a serious threat.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoWhy even bother going to the great expense and danger of capturing someone else's satellite? Surely it's relatively easy to determine its capabilities by looking at the data being transmitted?
- gumby 8y agoMight be hard to intercept those data. They are likely encrypted. Plus you may want to learn about their technical capabilities.
- extrapickles 8y agoIf they are putting your sat in an enclosed area, you don’t even need to do that, just vent your hypergolic fuel, 1 part out each side of the sat. You then claim that they must have damaged a fuel line when they touched the satellite.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoAlso, "accidental" damage is far easier to explain than putting munitions in orbit coughOuter Space Treatycough