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I think it’s unlikely. At LEO constellation altitude, you could use ground to space energy weapons (~3-10MW) to disable these satellites, no on orbit anti satel
by toomuchtodo 4mo ago
I think it’s unlikely. At LEO constellation altitude, you could use ground to space energy weapons (~3-10MW) to disable these satellites, no on orbit anti satellite capability required.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1544/1/012178/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1544/1/...
- uxhacker 4mo agoSo they can be disabled from the ground? Why has russia not thought of that? Is that why Starlink is actually concerned about them been used by Ukraine?
- ben_w 4mo agoIt's unlikely Russia has a 3 megawatt laser and the optics to hit a satellite at this time. Anti-drone defence would be much easier with much worse than that. That said, the ongoing improvements to lasers, and price reductions, in a decade I expect the limiting factor for random terrorists performing such an attack would be adaptive optics to get past atmospheric distortion.
- toomuchtodo 4mo agoI strongly believe China has this laser and adaptive optics capability today, they’re just not going to show their hand until they’re ready. Agree in a decade any rando will be able to accomplish this.