Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites
Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites
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Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites
I suppose most space-tier countries make research on the theme of muting/blinding the satellites. It is just common sense.
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.
Is this scorched
earthspace 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.