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Send some sharpnel on the same orbital altitude as Starlink and the whole constellation disappears.
by aredox 2y ago
Send some sharpnel on the same orbital altitude as Starlink and the whole constellation disappears.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoTrue, if by "some" you mean a few thousand rocket launches worth of shrapnel.
- nixass 2y agofew dozen crashed satellites quickly become shrapnel on their own, spreading in all directions. not at "shrapnel speed" but nevertheless..
- bryanlarsen 2y agoAt Starlink altitude there is still operationally significant volumes of air. So much so that Starlinks need to altitude raise regularly. Starlink shrapnel would drop below Starlink orbit almost immediately, and completely deorbit in a month or so.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoIt's Starlink. It would take an sms from Putin at most for Musk to turn it off.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoOh really