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Eventually someone somewhere will decide these LEO satellites are used for the military against their own sovereign countries and will have to start destroying
by mooktakim 4mo ago
Eventually someone somewhere will decide these LEO satellites are used for the military against their own sovereign countries and will have to start destroying them. We will end up with a graveyard in space where fragments will make it difficult to continue any space activities.
- svnt 4mo agoIIUC in this particular instance of corporate <-> government space warfare, orbital decay should clear out the debris relatively quickly.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> someone somewhere will decide these LEO satellites are used for the military against their own sovereign countries and will have to start destroying them Military potential is true for all materiel. Including DoD satellites. > We will end up with a graveyard in space where fragments will make it difficult to continue any space activities No, we won’t. Specific orbits will get trashed. And even then, only for a few years—LEO deörbits in months to years, the latter only for small things in high LEO.
- mooktakim 4mo agoIf you're determined enough you can cause damage that does not decay or go higher than LEO. This risk already exists for accidents. If your goal is to cause it, it wouldn't be too difficult
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> If you're determined enough you can cause damage that does not decay or go higher than LEO Source? The only solutions for orbital denial I know of are in GEO, and even then it’s cheaper to just shoot down birds as they go up.