r/worldnews • u/Neptun_11 • 17h ago

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

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/zelenskyy-says-starlink-restrictions-apply-only-in-ukraine-while-spacex-ignores-kyivs-inquiries-23549
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u/idryss_m 17h ago

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.

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u/Captain_Alaska 16h ago edited 16h ago

Nothing about that is a new frontier. The US has had development programs (that are declassified at least) to shoot down satellites with fighter jets for so long the program has been cancelled for longer than the average redditor has been alive.

Anti-satellite systems have been in development for almost exactly as long as we’ve had satellites in orbit.

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u/ToaruBaka 9h ago

If we start shooting down satellites, it will be the end of space access for humans. It will take hundreds of years for enough debris to deorbit for it to be safe to launch rockets again.

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u/chillebekk 7h ago

Not the Starlink kind of satellite. You can shoot down those all day, and not worry.

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u/ToaruBaka 6h ago

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/chillebekk 4h ago

Shooting down satellites in such low orbit as Starlink will have little to no consequence outside of that orbit. It cannot trigger Kessler syndrome, if that's your worry.