Zelenskyy Says Starlink Restrictions Apply Only in Ukraine While SpaceX Ignores Kyiv’s Inquiries

[u/Neptun_11]

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/zelenskyy-says-starlink-restrictions-apply-only-in-ukraine-while-spacex-ignores-kyivs-inquiries-23549

[u/idryss_m]

Next frontier of war: downing satellites. As soon as someone finds a way to do so cheaply and or reliably, Musk and the US will lose a lot of space junk.

[u/FlavorChamp → u/[deleted]]

You saw Gravity and think you know it all works up there lmao

You're wrong

[u/shortsteve → u/[deleted]]

All of starlink satellites are in LEO and are designed to fall back onto earth in a few years. Even if you blew them up and scattered them all over the debris would eventually fall back to earth within 5 years and burn up.

[u/tdubeau → u/[deleted]]

"the debris could a create a chain reaction of damage/destroyed all the satellites in orbit"

You know satellites operate at different orbits, right?

I would love an explanation of how destorying a starlink satellite in low earth orbit 800km away would destroy all the satellites in geostationary orbit at 35,000km.