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What would be banned are the dishes. China doesn’t need to send a missile to LEO (which would be unnecessarily costly for them).
by espadrine 4y ago
What would be banned are the dishes. China doesn’t need to send a missile to LEO (which would be unnecessarily costly for them).
- MichaelCollins 4y agoChina wouldn't need anti-satellite weapons to punish Elon Musk, since he has business interests in China. Hence "ban Teslas".
- gpm 4y agoChina has previously demonstrated anti-satellite weapons multiple times just to demonstrate they have them (and maybe make sure they work), I doubt they'd be that worried about the cost to demonstrate that they mean it and are willing to use them.
- wcoenen 4y agoRussia has done the same demonstration last year [1]. And yet they have not destroyed starlink, even though SpaceX donated many dishes to Ukraine[2]. So there still seems to be some restraint around the concept of shooting down foreign satellites. I guess it's a "mutual assured destruction" type situation: once you shoot down a satellite, you'd better be prepared to lose your own. [1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_188780.htm https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_188780.htm [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/elon-musk-spacex-thousands-of-starlink-satellite-dishes-sent-to-ukraine.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/elon-musk-spacex-thousands-o...
- true_religion 4y agoUkraine isn't Russian territory even though Russia would like to believe differently. On the other hand, providing free media merely to subvert the people of main land China could be seen as a company over stepping it's bounds by far. I will bet China would sanction anyone who dealt with Starlink.