Next message: Peter Fogg: "Re: Attacking GPS satellites"
Jared, you 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.)"
The armor is almost certainly irrelevant. But it is not all easy to launch
debris into the right orbits. These satellites occupy unusual, high orbital
positions, and it would be very hard to do this surreptitiously, if at all. I
do think there are ways to attack the GPS satellites using other technological
approaches.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
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