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Nah. It's easy to envision fully autonomous vessels in space which function fine without a communications link. In fact, that's probably the most desirable ty
by 01100011 4y ago
Nah. It's easy to envision fully autonomous vessels in space which function fine without a communications link. In fact, that's probably the most desirable type of craft, one that isn't hampered by delays in communication and can respond quickly to dynamic situations.
- Teever 4y agoBut how can you ensure that it is operating in an autonomous fashion for you as opposed to someone else who has commandeered it whether through physical force cyber means?
- Retric 4y agoSo your hypothetical adversary is getting physical access to satellites in orbit to remotely disassemble them and then put them back together after swapping hardware. How exactly do you think this is remotely cost effective? Really the best defense is to spend less than 1/10th as much and launch a new satellite.
- motohagiography 4y agohttps://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article/3002762/space-security-challenge-2022-hack-a-sat-3-registration-opens/ https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article/3002762/space-security-...
- Retric 4y agoWhich is somehow different than protecting a random website because it’s in space space space. Or wait no it's not.
- Teever 4y agoOP was describing a future where resources are being mined in space and returned to earth,. That is a future where people will have the means to build industrial capacity beyond the orbit of earth which means that infrastructure could be contracted out for surreptitious proposes. All it takes is one rogue self replicating asteroid miner...
- Retric 4y agoAsteroid mining in 50 years is also the least realistic thing he said. 50 years ago we had already been to the moon, and now people are talking about the possibility that we might at some point go back a few years from now. Now you want to add self replicating robots on that timescale... Why not time travel and FTL while you’re at it.
- Teever 4y agoHave you been paying attention to what SpaceX is doing with Starship? Things are developing far faster than you think.
- tagami 4y agohttps://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104539/x-37b-orbital-test-vehicle/ https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/1045...
- ithkuil 4y agoIt really depends what's the purpose of the satellite. I think the assumption here is that most of the added value of having a satellite in the first place is through the services it delivers through the communication link (imagery, communication relay, ...)