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Telecom satellites would be getting shot down in the first week, too.
by mullingitover 7y ago
Telecom satellites would be getting shot down in the first week, too.
- bigiain 7y agoElon's new constellation must be making for some fun plannig for those people. 60 new targets now, several hundred more new targets real soon now. I wonder if SpaceX and Blue Origin are launching payloads they're designed to shoot down their own payloads?
- v-yadli 7y agoI assume sending up a comsat is more expensive than sending up explosive to destroy it.
- bigiain 7y agoPossibly. It's not like the military-industrial complex is known for it's cost-effective solutions though... Given the manoeuvring requirements for the orbiting explosives, and the requirement to launch them with enough plausible deniability for it not to be obvious "there's a bunch of commercial satellite killers!" - I wonder if they could build and launch 60 of them for less than SpaceX paid to get the first 60 Starlink birds in orbit?
- v-yadli 7y agoActually I guess... it is sufficient to send up mines (lots of them) and wait for the satellites to hit them. Nevertheless, this is such a terrible idea, I hope this is not the future.
- baroffoos 7y agoWhich would prevent any chance of restoring them or any space travel at all for many generations until we work out how to clear out billions of bits of rubbish flying around faster than bullets.