#spacesustainability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spacesustainability, aggregated by home.social.
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"#China could effectively approach nearly 1,400 #Starlink #satellites within 12 hours using just 99 Chinese satellites. These could be equipped with lasers, microwaves and other devices to conduct reconnaissance, tracking or other operations."
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More details on the secret #SpaceX satellite constellation program for the U.S. Department of #Defense.
Perhaps most worrisome: the potential for these assets to become the targets of space warfare, including #ASAT weapons.
https://www.twz.com/space/if-spacexs-secret-constellation-is-what-we-think-it-is-its-game-changing
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"After decades of reflecting on the basics of nuclear blasts in space, I have come to see the risks as extremely low to nonexistent because a detonation would harm not only the attacked, but also the attacker."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/science/space-nuclear-bomb-putin.html