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Does he? Short of countrywide ku-band jamming and/or drone-based RDF at scale, what's the country going to do? It was one thing when you needed a C-band dish
by ethbr1 2mo ago
Does he?
Short of countrywide ku-band jamming and/or drone-based RDF at scale, what's the country going to do?
It was one thing when you needed a C-band dish to receive, but much harder to deal with a 1-2 ft dish.
- vrganj 2mo agoThey could shoot down those data centers for example.
- ethbr1 2mo agoUnreasonably expensive for pLEO volumes (same problem/advantage militaries are looking at) + collateral damage to other nations satellites The only nations who would realistically have that as an option would have a robust scaled ASAT capability (maybe US and China) but no pLEO satellites (rules out US and China).
- ben_w 2mo agoCurrently, yes. However, based on the rapid development of high-powered lasers, I think we're not too far from it being very cheap. Mostly an optics (adaptive and aperture) problem. This also means it's likely to get deniable very quickly.
- ben_w 2mo agoThey could, but this would be unnecessary. I suspect that simply blocking payments from locals to Musk may be enough, considering how Musk reacted when advertisers voted with their wallets to leave X. But nations have other tools, as Brazil showed when a judge ordered a freeze on Starlink assets because X didn't have reachable assets within Brazil to be frozen.