“And remember kids, the next time someone tells you “the Russians wouldn’t do that!” Oh yes they would.”
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hornswoggled111 on
The way Russia is melting down they would have to use a slingshot to deliver it.
bastard_rabbit on
Would they really target Starlink’s commercial satellites? I’d be more inclined to think they’d target the Starshield satellites used by the military.
chippymediaYT on
Starlink? You mean the service they use on their own drones? Unlikely
asoupo77 on
Yeah, I’m not gonna worry much about that. Russia is a real-life Bond villain. Big, nefarious plans which they are inevitably unable to complete.
philipp2310 on
Honest question: What would happen if a Starship fails to achieve orbit and crashes roughly in the middle of the Kremlin?
IndividualSkill3432 on
Soyuz can get about 7 tonnes to orbit, there are about 100 tonnes of space rocks that hit Earth each day. They would need to launch about 13 just to put one days worth of micrometeorites into orbit. Even putting up 100 tonnes would take years to hit a satellite. It seems to be a wildly unpractical weapon that would consume the entire launch capacity for many years before it had a real noticable effect let alone taking down a mega constellation.
It really just sounds like a small department has managed to convince someone to fund something just to keep them in a job.
Spiz101 on
Well…. Duh?
I would if I were them.
Stolen_Sky on
*”Suspect”* is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Lamb_or_Beast on
I mean, this is pretty much exactly what people were saying would eventually happen since Starlink was first proposed. Not necessarily that Russia would be first, but that near-earth orbit is getting pretty crowded and intelligence through satellites is going to become an obviously good target when a nation is at war. I am zero percent surprised at this development.
Methodrone8 on
I feel the Kessler syndrome incoming
userousnameous on
Despite it being owned by Musk, Starlink is probably the single greatest threat to regimes like china, nk, and russia. They are the easiest route to open, uncensored information.
There’s lots of military applications too, and I was in the US government, I would working on technology to kill their uplink/downlink in different regions. I would say we are at a point today where it is way too easy for a nefarious actor or highschool student with off the shelf components to build in-country a locally autonomous but starlink-controlled/guided drone.
DB_Explorer on
issue is one reason the military is looking at large LEO constellations is that because its not a few GEO satellites its much more resilient.. especially with satellite interlinks. You have to take down WAY more satellites…
Wrong-Ad-8636 on
good luck accomplishing that
Skow1179 on
I’m ready for the end. Let’s just jump to space lasers and nuke each other into dust so billionaires can live in the wasteland they’ve been preparing for.
GainPotential on
Patrolling Siberia almost makes one wish for Kessler syndrome.
sudophish on
I’m developing a teleportation device… doesn’t mean it will work though.
geek66 on
I guarantee you the US(and China) has a contingency plan for this network as well
empowered676 on
I thought musk was putins mate, hope these two eat each other like snakes
incunabula001 on
And this is how you get Kessler Syndrome.
derdubb on
They better not. My life kind of revolves around Starlink working since I live in a remote location and need the high speed service.
DiverDownChunder on
Little late to the game, the US had the F-15A w/ a dash of ASM-135 ASAT in 1984…
ClosPins on
Elon Musk right now: ‘The Russians are trying to take down my satellites?!! After all I’ve done for them?!!’
mr_chill77 on
Aren’t there thousands and thousands of them? It seems like it would be pretty hard to do.
wwarnout on
But wait – Trump will ask Putin about this, who will deny it. And, once again, Trump will believe Putin rather than his own intelligence agencies.
Trump is a traitor – and pedo, and felon, and racist/xenophobe/misogynist – and, above all, an ignoramus.
Ksan_of_Tongass on
In other news, the US is developing “spy” technology.
skinnybuddha on
As soon as Elon gets wind of this he will shutdown Ukrainian service. Which may be the intent of this story.
WtAFjusthappenedhere on
They’re in the “wonderwaffen” phase of losing now.
Decronym on
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[ASAT](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfsiv8 “Last usage”)|[Anti-Satellite weapon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon)|
|[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfpt6l “Last usage”)|US Department of Defense|
|[GEO](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfanok “Last usage”)|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)|
|[ICBM](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfsb75 “Last usage”)|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile|
|[ITAR](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfpeic “Last usage”)|(US) International Traffic in Arms Regulations|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfanok “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfpt6l “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[apogee](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfgsgv “Last usage”)|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
|[perigee](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfgsgv “Last usage”)|Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)|
Decronym is now also available on Lemmy! Requests for support and new installations should be directed to the Contact address below.
This really is a fascinating proxy war Russia has decided to engage in. We’ll be seeing more if these accidents on both sides.
It’s such a shame Putin woke up one morning and decided to choose evil but there you go, we all just have to deal with it now.
AlpenroseMilk on
I mean this obviously a serious matter, but at the same time I would be quite happy to hear a bunch of Starlink space pollution being taken out of the sky. The way it actually works is fucking awful and will make low earth orbit even worse than it already is.
wdwerker on
And the road to Skynet gets paving underway
OLVANstorm on
Russia doesn’t have enough missiles to shoot down all the Starlink satellites. I’d love to see them try. Elon will just put up 100 a day using Starship.
LTguy on
I thought Elon was their bestie?
LudasGhost on
Unless it’s a ground based laser, SpaceX can put them up far faster than Russia can shoot them down. One Falcon 9 launch can put up dozens, but the Russians would have to launch an individual rocket for each one. There are over 9000 of them. Currently all of their rocket production is going into bombing Ukrainian apartment buildings.
Mech_BB-8 on
Quick, $500 trillion dollars to Israel now!
Colonist25 on
please do – this is how we get real life iron man 🙂
musk on Ketamine in his armor suit blowing up ICBM launchers
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“And remember kids, the next time someone tells you “the Russians wouldn’t do that!” Oh yes they would.”
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The way Russia is melting down they would have to use a slingshot to deliver it.
Would they really target Starlink’s commercial satellites? I’d be more inclined to think they’d target the Starshield satellites used by the military.
Starlink? You mean the service they use on their own drones? Unlikely
Yeah, I’m not gonna worry much about that. Russia is a real-life Bond villain. Big, nefarious plans which they are inevitably unable to complete.
Honest question: What would happen if a Starship fails to achieve orbit and crashes roughly in the middle of the Kremlin?
Soyuz can get about 7 tonnes to orbit, there are about 100 tonnes of space rocks that hit Earth each day. They would need to launch about 13 just to put one days worth of micrometeorites into orbit. Even putting up 100 tonnes would take years to hit a satellite. It seems to be a wildly unpractical weapon that would consume the entire launch capacity for many years before it had a real noticable effect let alone taking down a mega constellation.
It really just sounds like a small department has managed to convince someone to fund something just to keep them in a job.
Well…. Duh?
I would if I were them.
*”Suspect”* is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
I mean, this is pretty much exactly what people were saying would eventually happen since Starlink was first proposed. Not necessarily that Russia would be first, but that near-earth orbit is getting pretty crowded and intelligence through satellites is going to become an obviously good target when a nation is at war. I am zero percent surprised at this development.
I feel the Kessler syndrome incoming
Despite it being owned by Musk, Starlink is probably the single greatest threat to regimes like china, nk, and russia. They are the easiest route to open, uncensored information.
There’s lots of military applications too, and I was in the US government, I would working on technology to kill their uplink/downlink in different regions. I would say we are at a point today where it is way too easy for a nefarious actor or highschool student with off the shelf components to build in-country a locally autonomous but starlink-controlled/guided drone.
issue is one reason the military is looking at large LEO constellations is that because its not a few GEO satellites its much more resilient.. especially with satellite interlinks. You have to take down WAY more satellites…
good luck accomplishing that
I’m ready for the end. Let’s just jump to space lasers and nuke each other into dust so billionaires can live in the wasteland they’ve been preparing for.
Patrolling Siberia almost makes one wish for Kessler syndrome.
I’m developing a teleportation device… doesn’t mean it will work though.
I guarantee you the US(and China) has a contingency plan for this network as well
I thought musk was putins mate, hope these two eat each other like snakes
And this is how you get Kessler Syndrome.
They better not. My life kind of revolves around Starlink working since I live in a remote location and need the high speed service.
Little late to the game, the US had the F-15A w/ a dash of ASM-135 ASAT in 1984…
Elon Musk right now: ‘The Russians are trying to take down my satellites?!! After all I’ve done for them?!!’
Aren’t there thousands and thousands of them? It seems like it would be pretty hard to do.
But wait – Trump will ask Putin about this, who will deny it. And, once again, Trump will believe Putin rather than his own intelligence agencies.
Trump is a traitor – and pedo, and felon, and racist/xenophobe/misogynist – and, above all, an ignoramus.
In other news, the US is developing “spy” technology.
As soon as Elon gets wind of this he will shutdown Ukrainian service. Which may be the intent of this story.
They’re in the “wonderwaffen” phase of losing now.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[ASAT](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfsiv8 “Last usage”)|[Anti-Satellite weapon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon)|
|[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfpt6l “Last usage”)|US Department of Defense|
|[GEO](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfanok “Last usage”)|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)|
|[ICBM](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfsb75 “Last usage”)|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile|
|[ITAR](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfpeic “Last usage”)|(US) International Traffic in Arms Regulations|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfanok “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfpt6l “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[apogee](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfgsgv “Last usage”)|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
|[perigee](/r/Space/comments/1pt8ymo/stub/nvfgsgv “Last usage”)|Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)|
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They will probably want ONE MILLION DOLLARS
This really is a fascinating proxy war Russia has decided to engage in. We’ll be seeing more if these accidents on both sides.
It’s such a shame Putin woke up one morning and decided to choose evil but there you go, we all just have to deal with it now.
I mean this obviously a serious matter, but at the same time I would be quite happy to hear a bunch of Starlink space pollution being taken out of the sky. The way it actually works is fucking awful and will make low earth orbit even worse than it already is.
And the road to Skynet gets paving underway
Russia doesn’t have enough missiles to shoot down all the Starlink satellites. I’d love to see them try. Elon will just put up 100 a day using Starship.
I thought Elon was their bestie?
Unless it’s a ground based laser, SpaceX can put them up far faster than Russia can shoot them down. One Falcon 9 launch can put up dozens, but the Russians would have to launch an individual rocket for each one. There are over 9000 of them. Currently all of their rocket production is going into bombing Ukrainian apartment buildings.
Quick, $500 trillion dollars to Israel now!
please do – this is how we get real life iron man 🙂
musk on Ketamine in his armor suit blowing up ICBM launchers
Why target them they’ll just deorbit themselves!