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rasztoday at 4:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

>hostile ... international governments

you mean other than China, russia, NK and Iran?


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trothameltoday at 5:08 AM

SpaceX's launch capacity is an order of magnitude larger that all four of those put together.

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inglor_cztoday at 6:36 AM

Yeah, but any of those attacking US satellites means an apocalyptic war, and the provenance of the attack would be clear. You cannot exactly hide a suborbital rocket launch.

Even in Russian nationalist circles, the occassional idea of shooting down current Starlink satellites is usually met with derision from the rest of the discussion group (see, for example, topwar.ru comments). That is just step too far, too dangerous.

Meanwhile, on Earth, you have a lot of plausible deniability. "Some terrorist group sneaked in and planted a bomb, totally not our people."

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