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aredox
11 months ago
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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
Send some sharpnel on the same orbital altitude as Starlink and the whole constellation disappears.
bryanlarsen
11 months ago
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True, if by "some" you mean a few thousand rocket launches worth of shrapnel.
nixass
11 months ago
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few dozen crashed satellites quickly become shrapnel on their own, spreading in all directions. not at "shrapnel speed" but nevertheless..
bryanlarsen
11 months ago
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At Starlink altitude there is still operationally significant volumes of air. So much so that Starlinks need to altitude raise regularly. Starlink shrapnel would drop below Starlink orbit almost immediately, and completely deorbit in a month or so.
TiredOfLife
11 months ago
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It's Starlink. It would take an sms from Putin at most for Musk to turn it off.
inemesitaffia
11 months ago
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Oh really
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