Most of the satelites are ~350km altitude. Branson and Bezos's joy
rides go to 100km. Say Russia had a joy ride that could reach 350km and
then fall back down. (0 orbital speed, only vertical speed).
JF Mezei submitted this gripping article, maybe on Monday:
Most of the satelites are ~350km altitude. Branson and Bezos's joy
rides go to 100km. Say Russia had a joy ride that could reach 350km and
then fall back down. (0 orbital speed, only vertical speed).
Oh, come on. You already know Russia has ASATs.
/dps
Oh, come on. You already know Russia has ASATs.
Based on what I saw, there are 2 base stations that are near enough to
serve most (but not all) locations in Ukraine (Poland and Turkey IIRC).
Elon Musk tweeted that someone was jamming then over Ukraine and that a >software patch would fix it.
If someone is jamming the frequencies allocated to SpaceX with loud
elevator music, how can a software fix pass though the jamming? Or is
that more a question of filtering out the jamming singnal and only
keeping the frequency modulation used for the satellites?
Secondly, and I ask this theoretically.
Most of the satelites are ~350km altitude. Branson and Bezos's joy
rides go to 100km. Say Russia had a joy ride that could reach 350km and
then fall back down. (0 orbital speed, only vertical speed).
Knowing the TLEs of the satellites, would it be feasable to launch
something straight up such that it get to satellite's position and
altitude just as the satellite passes there, causing satellite going
orbital speed to hit an object going at 0kmh ?
starlink.sx says there's also a Lithuanian base station. And all three
are NATO countries so he can't do anything about either.
Some playing around with starlink.sx suggests that all of Ukraine is coverable by Starlink
They could in theory run out of "beam spots"
There's many things that they could do that could help, it's
impossible to know what they're doing. But the jamming would need to
be pointed fairly precisely at the satellite which gives some hints of
a few of the things that might be possible.
Russia do have real "direct ascent" ASATs with actual sane flight
profiles , their last intercept test was in November 2021
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-us-spy-agency-probes-sabotage-satellite-internet-during-russian-2022-03-11/
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