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nradov • today at 5:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Nah. There's no practical way to jam tight beam satellite data links unless you place the jammer near the ground terminal. And the US government has already stated that they would consider kinetic strikes on US-owned commercial satellites as an act of war.


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libertine • today at 6:42 PM

But striking a data center in the US isn't an act of war?

I don't get the defense argument for space data centers.