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Russia warns United States: use of SpaceX for spying makes its satellites a target (www.reuters.com)

submitted 7 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that starlink satellites are orders of magnitudes more expensive to manufacture and deploy than the weapons that can target them.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you know that? You're launching an entire rocket to kill one satellite, that can't be cheap.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it is probably expensive, but a satellite is probably even more expensive, and not just by a little.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

I don’t think it is… one of the satellites cost USD 250k in 2019. it is likely cheaper now.

There have been Anti Satellite Weapon tests (for example from China) to see if it is feasible. The cost for such an attack would be much much higher than 250k (we are talking multiple millions)