Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites

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Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I thought it was denial of capacity. Satellites loaded with small ball bearings wrapped around high explosives to not only destroy satellites in a short term low orbit version of kessler syndrome, but to keep LEO full of satellite destroying shit for a while to deny relaunching new satellites.

A 500km orbit like Starlink means unassisted objects can stay up for almost 10 years. Long enough for war, short enough to not permanently damage space.

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