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Red wrote:
> I find it easy to imagine. Satellites can be knocked out very easily once you
> have launch capability, and all sorts of small players and commercial
> companies
> now either HAVE that, or shortly will. I can easily imagine someone with a
> grudge hiring a private launch of an ostensibly innocent satellite, which in
> turns releases or becomes a debris field that does massive damages. (The GPS
> satellites are armored, but how extensive the armor is, is classified.)
You speak of a brute-force attack on the satellites. In fact the signals
are relatively weak, and therefore targets for jamming.
Bill
