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2024-07-05 Science & Technology

Shoot Down or Blind: What Russia Can Do to American Satellites

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Posted by badanov 2024-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 There are two ways to counter space espionage: by shooting down satellites in orbit or by jamming satellite terminals on the ground.

The traditional satellite defense strategy had been to target the control and relay ground stations rather than the satellites themselves, because they are few. Musk offers a distributed control system for his constellations making them less vulnerable though loss of the Redmond WA facility would be catastrophic.

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