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With Starshield, SpaceX readies for battle

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  1. NYC Fred

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    #1 NYC Fred, Jan 21, 2023
    Gee. The private sector is more efficient than NASA?
    The DOD?
    Who knew?
    Musk is (imo) an incredible visionary. The melding of the individual corporate capabilities here is incredible...


    https://spacenews.com/with-starshield-spacex-readies-for-battle/


    (...Russia’s war in Ukraine cast a powerful spotlight on the space industry, notably on the value of imaging satellites and on SpaceX’s satellite broadband service Starlink. The system — with well over 3,000 satellites in orbit and thousands more to come — demonstrated resilience against jamming and showed the strength of this kind of proliferated architecture.

    “This wasn’t available before,” John Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said Dec. 14 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ukraine is the first major conflict, he noted, where commercial space technology has come into play in a significant way.

    The integration of commercial space into military operations is “the way of the future,” Plumb said. “It’s pretty clear now that the department doesn’t have to build its own constellation for every mission set to introduce resilience.”...)))
     
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    #2 tazandjan, Jan 21, 2023
    Yes, and he is dragging DOD and civil space kicking and screaming into reusable lift.
     
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    #3 BJK, Jan 21, 2023
    Yes, and this will lead to absolute disaster. It is inevitable. So, now, satellites are military targets, right? Two countries at war, China or Russia vs US, start destroying each others satellites.
    Knock out communications and GPS that the military relies on to wage war. Massive amounts of space debris knock out other satellites which will render space UNUSABLE because there will be debris scattered everywhere.

    "Kessler syndrome" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome



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    #4 jcurry, Jan 21, 2023
    This has been the case for over 30 yrs. The key nowadays is to use software to destroy systems rather than kinetics
     
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    #5 BJK, Jan 21, 2023
    in all out war, short of nuclear, you would do both.
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    #6 tazandjan, Jan 21, 2023
    Space is a big place. Not as easy as it seems, especially with proliferated constellations. Except for nukes, of course.
     

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