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Re:The US military launched 500M needles into space (2019) by GekkePrutser on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @08:52PM (#31590038)
But this kind of denial works the same for all parties' sats. Kind of a mutually assured destruction.

I'm sure targeted options will be favoured by most parties.

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Re:The US military launched 500M needles into space (2019) by mlyle on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:02PM (#31590113)
> But this kind of denial works the same for all parties' sats. Kind of a mutually assured destruction.

Yah. Slightly favors your own satellites in the odds, but not wonderfully so.

At the same time, if you're facing an adversary which depends upon LEO much, much more... this might be an attractive strategy.

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