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Comment by lenkite

14 days ago

At some point, nations are going to claim the orbital space above them as national territory and develop technology to shoot down violators.

That would be fairly nonsense. There's _very_ few orbits that can stick over a particular place, and it's only places on the equator. We'd be giving up 99+% of useful orbits.

  • If Russia had been the one to launch over ten thousand satellites in mega-constellations occupying LEO space, there would have already been a dozen senate hearings all talking about extraordinary and imminent threat to US national security and urgent need to eliminate the problem.

ASAT already exists and multiple countries have already shot down (their own, defunct) satellites.