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Pretty sure Russia has physical satellite killer missiles just like US does? Would a nuke in space even work to take out a group of them, maybe even via an EMP
by ck2 4y ago
Pretty sure Russia has physical satellite killer missiles just like US does?
Would a nuke in space even work to take out a group of them, maybe even via an EMP surge or are they hardened?
Sometimes I wonder if the world would be more peaceful if cellphone networks couldn't work anymore but there would be so much other chaos so guess not.
- upupandup 4y ago
- bpodgursky 4y ago> The PLA has literally robots that can obscure and destroy US satellites without launching missiles at it This is 100% speculation. The only thing that China has demonstrably done is blow up satellites. It would be unsurprising if this tech was in development, but nobody has any clue whether there are non-kinetic satellite neutralization weapons deployed.
- Aeolun 4y agoI imagine a high powered laser would work pretty well against something the size of a Starlink sat? Not sure if we can focus them well enough to be worth the power expenditure though.
- CyanBird 4y agoDon't spread useless misinformation on hackernews
- upupandup 4y agoI don't think you understand what that word means.
- panick21_ 4y agoRussia does not have the capability of destroying Starlink because the amount of upmass required to destroy them is larger then what the Russians can actually do. SpaceX replacement rate would be higher then Russia destroy rate.
- bogomipz 4y agoExcept Russia already proved they can shoot satellites out of space as they did almost a year ago with their Nudol ASAT weapon test: https://archive.ph/1tdHl https://archive.ph/1tdHl
- marvin 4y agoExcellent. Now repeat that feat 2500 times to destroy all existing Starlink satellites, and keep doing it 1300 times each year to destroy all the new Starlink satellites that are being launched. Assuming of course that SpaceX will not increase its launch cadence, and that this act of war will not provoke a response that stops is. The concept is laughable. It is intractable at every level of execution.
- LtWorf 4y agoStarlink: the final bullet that killed astronomy from earth and soon probably also space travel.
- LightG 4y agoUntil it happens... These possibilities are not at the behest of your logic but at the will of a small number of people far away.
- bogomipz 4y agoExcept you don't need one ASAT launch per satellite it's completely asymmetric. The debris in low Earth orbit travels 10,000-15,000 miles an hour. The high energy debris in LEO does all the work. A 1cm piece of debris would render other satellites useless. Your idea that space will somehow not be militarized is quite laughable. There's an actual history that proves you wrong: https://hir.harvard.edu/anti-satellite-weapons-and-the-emerging-space-arms-race/ https://hir.harvard.edu/anti-satellite-weapons-and-the-emerg...