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.
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.
I think most current wars in progress have much less logical reasons for happening
It's possible, it would just be _very_ dumb. It'd also turn into just...shooting them all down, restrictions of who anything is over wouldn't survive.
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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.