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I wonder when the first hacker will hack a satelite, fire it's retro-rockets to make it crash and cause the Kessler Syndrome, intentionally or not https://en.w
by greggman3 4y ago
I wonder when the first hacker will hack a satelite, fire it's retro-rockets to make it crash and cause the Kessler Syndrome, intentionally or not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Of course that could also happen with random bugs and no hacking I guess?
- bayindirh 4y agoThere are already people who talk with satellites, recover them or make older ones work again. It’s one google search away.
- j-wags 4y agoHackers damaged/destroyed the ROSAT satellite in the late 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_operations
- yencabulator 4y agoYour link contradicts that (or at least has NASA denying it): > However, NASA officials in charge of the day-to-day operations of the ROSAT mission at Goddard, including GSFC Rosat Project Scientist Rob Petre, say definitively that no such incident occurred. Talleur's information appears to have come from one of his interns who exaggerated a hacking incident on an office computer not related to flight operations.
- j-wags 4y agoAh, you're right - I'd vaguely remembered seeing this before and pasted the wikipedia section without reading it thoroughly. My mistake!
- ezoe 4y agoFrom what I've heard, there are many vulnerable old satelites orbiting around the earth. The attack hasn't happened simply because communication equipment is out of hand for an malicious individual and there is no way he can hide the act.