Westliche Geheimdienste vermuten, dass Russland eine neue Waffe entwickelt, um Musks Starlink-Satelliten anzugreifen

It will also harm China and Europes space based platforms. Russia doing so would be as bad as using a nuke.

That would be so fantastic for all mankind. Please.

As if he hasn’t already given them full access. What a joke.

>ct Russia is developing a „zone-effect“ anti-satellite weapon that would release hundreds of thousands of tiny, undetectable pellets into low Earth orbit to disable Starlink satellites. The weapon could cause widespread space debris, risk collateral damage to other satellites—including Russia’s and China’s—and potentially trigger uncontrollable chaos in space

Soyuz can launch 8 tonnes into space. Around 100 tonnes of space debris, usually micrometeorites fall to Earth per day. So its only a fraction of the daily average debris let alone a serious change in the volume of it in orbital space. Orbital space is huge, its the surface of the Earth but over a depth of thousands of kms. When people imagine this stuff in their heads, they dont have the ability to really contextualise it into the actual volume of space and what Russia is capable of.

This seems like something from the early 60s when governments wrote cheques for really silly ideas. I am wondering what happened to their space laser projects.

This will get people exited but personally it looks like something to keep a couple of people in a job by fooling the idiots who Putin puts in charge.

Your mileage may vary.

Don’t really see this as an innovation. Starlink satellites are in very low and well-known orbits, in addition to continuously broadcasting on known frequencies, making homing in on them trivial.

If ever a serious war breaks out between major powers, in the early days of such a war, lots of satellites would be destroyed.

Communications across the world would go down and lots of people would have no back up and no idea what to do.

Kepler syndrome here we come.

that exactly what we need. World peace solved. We all getting laid tonight.

Wodden stair

Develop starlink satellites to crash on Putin’s big bald dome.

We already know they have been testing anti-satellite capabilities for a while now.

I think there’s a real likelihood that it costs Russia more to knock out satellites this way than it costs Starlink to replace them; Russia does not have reusable rocket technology. Starlink can launch a lot of payloads (each with tons of sats) for the cost of a single Russian launch. Economic self-inflicted defeat.

Not too mention that the Starlink orbits are „self-cleaning“ – anything without propellant (to counter the upper-atmospheric drag) falls back down in a few weeks/months/years. (Starlink sats have propulsion, allowing them to stay up for years. Russian ball bearings do not, so they can’t stay up there).

So even if Russia burns it’s treasure to sabotage civilization, in short order the ball bearings will be gone and the satellites replaced. It’s an expensive way to inflict a brief window of patchy Internet. Maybe useful for a battle rather than a war.

For fucks sake Russia needs to grow up and work on raising its quality of life to modern standards instead of trying to burn down modern standards so Putin’s failures to build anything don’t look so pathetic. The only thing that man seems any good at is stealing his people’s money and building secret palaces instead of improving life for the people. 

Alot of comments are missing a very important detail.

These satilites cost 250k, that’s less than 2 new Ford raptors.

Its not economical to shoot down LEO satitlitirs that get launched in batches of 80. If starship ever gets working, it will be hundreds at time.

This is kinda why LEO satilites are alot better than many people understand. They also automatically fall out of orbit after a few months if not propelled, or after a few years by design.

If a serious war broke our, Russia would detonate multiple nukes in space. Possibly a few dozen.

This would be to mess with the power grid and take out the majority of US satellites.