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Excellent. 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 s
by marvin 4y ago
Excellent. 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...
- panick21_ 4y agoNot all Starlink are on the exact same orbital plane. There is some asymmetry but at the same time Starlink sats can also avoid debris from known places. On this altitude debris would quickly drop out so you would never get Kessler synonym. Russia would have to shoot down a huge amount of sats. And SpaceX can easily have 100-1000x the upmass of Russia. And this is before you can consider lots of counter-measures the US could potentially do.