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I assume sending up a comsat is more expensive than sending up explosive to destroy it.


Possibly. It's not like the military-industrial complex is known for it's cost-effective solutions though...

Given the manoeuvring requirements for the orbiting explosives, and the requirement to launch them with enough plausible deniability for it not to be obvious "there's a bunch of commercial satellite killers!" - I wonder if they could build and launch 60 of them for less than SpaceX paid to get the first 60 Starlink birds in orbit?


Actually I guess... it is sufficient to send up mines (lots of them) and wait for the satellites to hit them.

Nevertheless, this is such a terrible idea, I hope this is not the future.


Space (even low earth orbit) is BIG.

Very very big...


Yeah, but the satellites are not too maneuverable. The trajectory is mostly mechanical.




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