> Concerns about Kessler syndrome won't stop combatants from using anti-satellite weapons. When national (or regime) survival is at stake, they will shoot down

> Concerns about Kessler syndrome won't stop combatants from using anti-satellite weapons. When national (or regime) survival is at stake, they will shoot down adversary satellites and worry about cleaning up the mess later. This is a sad truth, people will shot first, and then when their own satellites get mass destroyed by the remnants of "the enemy satellites" they will notice something had gone terribly wrong. And once such condition is reached up, clearing up the mess is nearly impossible without international coordination on a very expensive project. > Kessler syndrome is mainly only a concern in higher orbits anyway. LEO satellites (most of them, specifically most military satellites) are very vulnerable to Kessler syndrome. > Even in if there's a lot of debris in orbit, it will take a while on average for any individual satellite to get hit. If it takes a while for it to get hit, then you haven't reached Kessler syndrome yet. > This is absolutely nothing like MAD. Satellites have to be destroyed one at a time Until they all suddenly turn collectively into space junk, because too much space junk is floating in space. > that involves little or no loss of human life or national infrastructure. I think that the very expensive satellites humans put in orbit is considered part of the national infrastructure.