Re:SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming sign...
by rq1 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:02AM
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I meant the LEO orbit, though I have no idea of their military activities, they might as well have a ton of objects there.
Thank you for the counterpoint though, it was interesting :)
The EMP of Starfish Prime [1], the detonation of a nuclear bomb at 400km altitude (the altitude of the ISS), knocked out streetlights over 1400km away in Hawaii. That means it could have damaged satellites up to at least 1800km altitude (but this was in 1962), which is almost all of the low Earth orbit altitude range. With enough nukes you could probably wipe out Starlink's satellites, but with the way they're spread out, I think you'd wipe out most other satellites too.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime