alt Hacker NewsIt's not just starlink up there, at minimum NRO will be sad and unable to track nuclear weapons and such, the US military will be down a satellite coms systems, and there are probably some people which use starlink for something important.
It's not just starlink up there, at minimum NRO will be sad and unable to track nuclear weapons and such, the US military will be down a satellite coms systems, and there are probably some people which use starlink for something important.
Yeah it would suck to lose Starlink for a few years. I wouldn't mourn spy telescopes. But most other satellites like weather satellites or ballistic missile detectors or GPS are in higher orbits and wouldn't be affected at all.
My point is that even the unlikely worst case scenario would be limited in time and extent. It couldn't possibly block us from reaching space or last for decades, as some people fear.