Comment by rkagerer
7 days ago
Weapons test springs to mind, or as a sibling comment suggested a test of Starlink response capabilities.
How confident are we the intent was nefarious? Do you ever see accidental near-misses with this type of flight profile?
The system exists- ergo, people in the know are concerned about accidental collisions.
Alternative: the system exists, so people in the know may well have done proper risk assessment and may have identified multiple reasons that could result in a collision. Some of those reasons are accidental, some are not.