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i don't think china will hesitate to simply attack all internet satellites targeting their ground on the pretext of national security. they're able to go to th
by bsaul 6y ago
i don't think china will hesitate to simply attack all internet satellites targeting their ground on the pretext of national security.
they're able to go to the moon, so i don't think destroying a piece of flying metal in orbit would be a problem
- inglor_cz 6y agoThe question is what comes next. Starlink being an American military asset among others, the US would probably respond by destroying all Chinese hardware in space. Now what?
- 082349872349872 6y agoThree chances that any major power hot war doesn't produce Kessler Syndrome: slim, fat, and none. (Not that we'll necessarily be around to care. I have no idea if ICBMs still use celestial navigation, but we'd have to mess up pretty badly to no longer have stars...)
- ohazi 6y agoStarlink will be ~ten thousand pieces of metal, all on different orbits. Ignoring the whole "act of war" thing, everyone in this thread is dramatically underestimating how difficult it would be to shoot down a constellation that large. We can barely shoot down one satellite, at a cost of somewhere around a few million dollars. SpaceX is launching 60 at a time, while each shoot down would be a fairly complicated logistical nightmare.