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I wonder if you could pool money to have spacex or some other company launch a satellite/set of servers into orbit as opposed to some country somewhere. That'd
by joyeuse6701 13y ago
I wonder if you could pool money to have spacex or some other company launch a satellite/set of servers into orbit as opposed to some country somewhere. That'd be pretty expensive for them to take (physically) out of service then!
- jaredstenquist 13y agoThe US government could easily destroy said satellite.
- ballard 13y agoSeveral countries have ASATs. There are probably other ways to destroy/disable satellites. How much would it cost?
- pavel_lishin 13y agoMaybe, but probably not as expensive as you launching it in the first place as a percentage of money involved. I'd bet there are a few old birds up there that are still under control, but not serving any particular purpose. Steer it into a collision course, and bam, your server just became a cloud of garbage orbiting the Earth. On the other hand, that would seriously piss off the rest of the international community, especially if the two satellites were high enough to clutter up existing satellite traffic.