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		toomuchtodo on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious,... You're going to need a lot of ASAT firepower to put a dent in StarLink's constellation (thousands of minisats).

DuskStar on June 13, 2019 [–]

And thus lasers, which will presumably have a far higher sustained fire rate / magazine depth than ASAT-capable missiles. (And 100kW-class lasers aren't science fiction anymore, since the US Navy is deploying them for testing)

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