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

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• Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I suppose most space-tier countries make research on the theme of muting/blinding the satellites. It is just common sense.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is this scorched earth space tactic viable though?

      Looking at the sort of tech militaries are heavily investing in at the moment, many require long range communication to work to their full potential. Sure, there is also the push to add object recognition and other smart systems to unmanned vehicles, but those are mainly intended to take care of the final approach where potential interferences are strongest.

      Also surveillance satelites are irreplaceable in their capabilities.

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• Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Each new technology immediately raises two questions: how do we destroy it and how do we use it for destruction.

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Three questions actually.

    Can we use it for porn?

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    • axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i bet theres an xkcd for this

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Can I fuck it?”

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    • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This leads to the question of where I can find rule 34 of this.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sure Satlink has been extensively trialled for that use too.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All you need to do is hit the right spot on a satellite with an ablative laser to make it de-orbit.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah and that is not how that works, that is not how physics works and that is not how anything works.

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    • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A laser heating one side of anything enough to ablate material in space will alter it’s trajectory, it’s entirely possible that objects in low earth orbit would be forced to return to earth. That’s been proposed as a possible way to deal with all the random crap in space.

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