The same China that got caught faking space missions a few years ago? That China?
I don’t think Musk has to worry too much.
Starlink needs the ability to destroy Chinese researchers.
Fixed it.
Who the heck wrote this article?
1. Amazon hasn't launched even ONE satelite let alone their satellite system being “ready”.
2. China cannot take down Starlink. Russia tried it over Ukraine and got nowhere . And Starlink is not even available in China.
Pretty obvious where this is going.
Low-Earth orbits will eventually be impossible due to billions of high-velocity bits of shattered satellites, each one of which can destroy a manned spacecraft.
Oh well, they fall out of orbit fairly quickly due to atmospheric friction. Kind of like radioactive pollution. The nastier isotopes decay pretty fast. The long-lived ones aren’t nearly as dangerous.
I’m no expert when it comes to this technology but I do know the Russians tried to jam them and the Starlink staff was able to take countermeasures quickly that made all future jamming attempts ineffective.
Physically knocking down enough of those small, cheap cubesats would be quite a challenge....and then how would you stop them from simply deploying more when one launch vehicle can carry scores of them to patch any holes in the network?
As I’ve been saying, the next world war will be fought in space. I just hope our new Space Force military branch is on it. I remember reading many Air Force IT personnel transferring to Space Force. Could be wrong.
"Elon has the high ground."
There are over 2500 of them launched, but tracking them is easy enough:
https://satellitemap.space/
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