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Yizahilast Thursday at 10:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Cheaper to launch a barrel of metal trash to the Starlink orbits. Or a few barrels. Iran has rockets for that.


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m4rtinklast Friday at 12:20 AM

There are 9400 active Starlink satellites & they can be launched 28 at a time on a partially reusable rocket. The orbit they operate on is largely self cleaning due to being quite low. The satellites operate in many planes and bands + form a mesh network with laster interconnects.

Sure, if you want to try that and bankrupt Iran even more via its militarry rocket program, you can do that and maybe destray a handfull satellites, provided you can actually hit them and the rocket/s does not fail. And you might even get a nice casus belli as a free extra.

twelvedogslast Friday at 3:46 AM

you might be able to hit one but it'd be pretty impressive, like firing a bullet and hitting someone in another country impressive